Summary
FDA scientists have been instructed to avoid using words like “woman,” “disabled,” and “elderly” in external communications, per a leaked list circulating within the agency.
The directive, reportedly linked to Trump’s executive order against “gender ideology,” has caused confusion and concern.
The White House denies most words are banned but confirms restrictions on terms related to gender and diversity.
Scientists fear these limits will hinder medical research and public health efforts.
Wait, so we can use Talking Rib and Cripple instead?
Once again, those 7 million or so asshats that didn’t vote for Kamala because of ‘GeNoCiDe JoE’, this is on you.
When you keep having to vote for the lesser evil for so long, you get Trump.
Democrats were a lesser evil and that wasn’t enough.
But not the 75 million fascists
Them too. Both are equally to blame.
Some women voted to be enslaved. This says a lot about our society and where we should work on.
Nobody realizes that all of these outrageous headlines, quotes and ideas of Trump are just distractions from his actual agenda. He’s intentionally flooding the media with this kind of stuff.
This headline in particular is completely irrelevant in the grand sceme of things. So is most other things. Like him saying he’s going to own Gaza. Was never going to happen. It’s just a distraction and everyone is falling for it again and again.
I learned to ignore most of what Trump is doing and only pay attention to the important stuff that usually ranks second in the news behind this kind of stuff.
Such as?
Increasing the power of the executive branch in line with Unitary Executive Theory and following the Project 2025 playbook through Elon to gut social services across the board. He will be the dictator of the country when they’re done, with no regulatory agency power to stop the full fascist takeover.
All the money they saved by cutting these essential programs that literally keep people alive (in the US and around the world) and from homelessness will be sent to the rich through tax cuts. It’s all very obvious, but since they’re hurting nonwhite people the most, hardly anyone who voted for him sees what’s happened.
I still can’t understand how people have been able to elect this guy…
So the Trump Bible should be changed to Adam and Adam.
“What is a [REDACTED]?”
“A miserable pile of [REDACTED]!”
I assume “raping women” and “making fun of the disabled” are still ok. Fascist fuck.
almost as if terfism and gender criticism is just thinly veiled misogyny and women hating politics
“Am I out of touch?” The irony was lost on TERFs ever since they were applauded by anti-abortion christian and white nationalists and nazis, and they still went “No, it is the trans that are profoundly misogynist”.
Sorry but just because this mentions FDA this has nothing to do with science. This is an article about politics and bigotry. Real science is happening elsewhere and it’s unfortunate it probably won’t come from the US.
We could say that science is under attack (see following sources). In this case, it belongs.
- Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
- Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
- CDC ordered to remove research papers that use the terms “LGBT,” “pregnant people” and more
- The Attacks on Science
- Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
- My daughter is publishing another academic paper and has to run a filter to ensure there are no “controversial” words. It is an applied physics paper dealing with novel quantum matter.
Can we agree that:- Science is under attack.
- Weaponized cisgenderism is science denialism at this point.
- Free speech absolutism is a trope to suppress all freedom except for white supremacist rhetoric.
- The attacks are not limited to trans but also cis women, including cis women scientists.
- Trans rights stem from a complex set of fundamental freedoms, and opposing them is profoundly fascist.
If anyone does not agree, ex post facto, with the above points is a literal nazi apologist at this point, and can go debate if FElon’s salute was nazi or not. I don’t have the time of day for this though.Can we further agree that scientists must be in the social and ideological avant-garde and opposing fascism, like Einstein did?
Then we see at a time that science is under attack, in the context of a petrifying fascist power grab from anti-vax charlatans, and in the name of science innocent people are vilified and persecuted, that the relevance of these developments ought to be front and center to all science-related communities, much like this once were:
Because this more or less shows the fossil fuel interests that are behind all this.Well let’s just say I’d have rather been in the control of the American Experiment.
bro is getting insecure about his age
I can’t wait until a stroke puts him in a wheelchair and he has to eat McDonalds through a straw.
Better if the stroke puts him 6ft under.
How are they supposed to refer to a woman then? woMAN?
“Wives” I guess since that seems to be the only position that these people value.
Presumably “femoids” or some other 4chan coinage.
Unman
Oh that explains the plane binary…
I guess “Females”
Also banned it seems. Another source.
I’m pretty sure the lists I’ve seen circulating also ban the word female… which is so bizarre
They aren’t.
Anyone other than no disabled cis hetero white males is irrelevant.
The fragile snowflake might have a breakdown…
