Monday, February 03, 2025

It Is Getting Dangerous Out There!

Hate is coming so fast and furious that it is impossible to keep up with. One Trump EO after another are targeting us. The latest attack is on our healthcare and it is having hospitals running away from us in droves. The newest directive from on high strips federal funding from hospitals that treat us!
By Ayana Archie, Jaclyn Diaz
January 29, 2025


President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under the age of 19.
The directive, signed Tuesday, was the latest step the Trump administration has taken that examines social protections for the transgender community. On Monday, Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military. On his first day in office last week, Trump signed an order recognizing two sexes, male and female, and taking aim at what the order described as gender ideology extremism.

Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, senior counsel and health care strategist for Lambda Legal, said in a statement, "The Trump administration's disdain and animosity towards transgender people and other minorities appears to know no bounds."

Gonzalez-Pagan continued, "In seeking to deny transgender youth the medically sound and well-established health care that they need, this administration could put thousands of vulnerable young lives at risk. It is an outrageous overreach of government power that reveals its cruel absolutism."

Along with Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign lambasted the Trump administration for inserting itself in the personal medical decisions of Americans.
I keep asking myself, why does Trump hate us so much? The only thing that I can think of goes back to when Trump owned the  Miss Universe franchise and he used to walk into the women changing clothes and I think is the root of his hate against us. I think mister Macho Man was terrified that one of the women might trans and having the hots for her will "make him gay!"
Some coverage for pediatric gender-affirming care will be excluded from Medicaid, Medicare and benefits packages for federal and U.S. Postal Service employees.

Trump also condemned health care workers performing the procedures and said, "This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation's history, and it must end."
As a person on Medicare I worry that I could lose my coverage!

AP News reports that,
The language in the executive order — using words such as “maiming,” “sterilizing” and “mutilation” — contradicts what is typical for gender-affirming care in the United States. It also labels guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health as “junk science.”
I have to wounder what Hartford Hospital, Middlesex Hospital, and Yale Hospital is going to with programs.
It also directs the Justice Department to prioritize investigating states that protect access to gender-affirming care and “facilitate stripping custody from parents” who oppose the treatments for their children. Some Democratic-controlled states have adopted laws that seek to protect doctors who provide gender-affirming care to patients who travel from states where it’s banned for minors.
But the damage is done with, Friday the new lord rulers issued a decree...
Reuters
By Julie Steenhuysen and Nancy Lapid
February 2, 2025


Summary
  • CDC orders pull back to comply with Trump executive orders
  • Agency directive to divisions comes after initial guidance to review communications
  • Editors of scientific journals question the legality of the move
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a review by the Trump administration, a federal official told Reuters.

The sweeping order came in an email from the CDC's chief science officer on Friday addressed to all division heads at the agency, the official, who has seen the email, told Reuters. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The review is aimed at removing language to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order saying the federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female. Officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment.

The withdrawal order, first reported by the Inside Medicine Substack, goes beyond an initial directive on Jan. 21 that federal health agencies pause their own public communications to allow for a review of those materials by Trump appointees.

Inside Medicine published a list of specific words targeted for removal in the communications review, including gender, transgender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and nonbinary. The federal official said that such a list went out from CDC to its divisions.

The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. If CDC scientists are co-authors on a paper that originated outside of the agency, they are asked to take their names off the paper, the official said.
NBC News NY4 reports cancellations of research conferences!
By Mike Stobbe and Jonel Aleccia | The Associated Press 
January 23, 2025


The Trump administration’s freeze on communications from U.S. health agencies is leading to another disruption: the abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings.

The move covers a swath of health conditions, from a Presidential Advisory Council meeting on antibiotic-resistant germs to National Institutes of Health evaluations of grant applications for research into cancer and other diseases.
According to Politico the information removed includes:
  •     Key CDC public health communications about diagnosing HIV
  •     Guidance on contraceptives for healthcare providers
  •     Information on health disparities among LGBTQ+ people
  •     The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which monitors student health and risk behaviors
CNN reported that other important resources have been taken offline:
    AtlasPlus, an interactive platform for analyzing CDC data on HIV, STDs, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis
    The CDC's Social Vulnerability Index, which helps identify communities susceptible to disasters and public health crises

This is so wrong on so many levels... first, it violate the Constitution! It blocks vital medical research information for political purposes and people can lose their lives over the censorship!

Where else have we seen libraries raided over LGBTQ+ content?

From Facebook





I don't have to tell you what this will do to us... my only suggestion is to donate to legal organizations like GLAD, Lambda Legal, and Transgender Legal Defense Fund. They are going to have a lot of court battles on their hands. I have worked personally with lawyers from GLAD, most of the non-discrimination laws were written by their lawyers, in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont they worked with legislators to write the laws.

You can also help your federal and state legislators to get reelected or to get LGBTQ+ candidates elected. We must take back Congress in two years in 2026!

2 comments:

  1. Richard Nelson2/3/25, 11:28 AM

    "The latest attack is on our healthcare and it is having hospitals running away from us in droves." Everyone will be anything but Transgender." OurStories tells us the same. Just one more step to the final solution. This is why studying ourstories is so important so then one will not be so shocked at what the present hostiles are doing or are going to do. Now Musk and his boys have access to our Social Security files. I can only shake my head and say there is no end to their madness be prepared. As far as the constitution is concerned part of the hostiles crusaders plan is to destroy it, get rid of it. Just another rhyme with another time. Diana I hope its okay if I link from my blog to some of these postings. Folks need to know what is happening. Of course it will be credited to you and her corner. (your little corner may be little but it sure is telling it loud and clear. Thanks)

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  2. Yes, you can link to my blog anytime you want.

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