A signal for CDC is outside its facilities in the Centers for Nursing Control and Prevention Roybal Campus in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 30, 2025.
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More than a dozen pages has been withdrawn on the Centers For Nursing and Prevention Centente website related to sexual and gender identity, health equity and other topics, CNBC has learned.
The CDC received a directive from the Department of Health and Human Services, which supervises the agency, to eliminate certain web pages at the end of the day on September 19, according to an internal email of the CDC seen by CNBC, which was sent that day to some employees whose work is related to the pages.
Pages include an over -transmitted infections and homosexual men, another on healthy equity for people with additional disabilities and data sheets on asexuality and bisexuality. Some defenders of the health capital say that eliminating such resources could create gaps in access to critical health information, especially for marginalized groups, and undermine efforts to promote equitable care.
The elimination of “critical materials of reliable government resources endangers the health of patients and the public,” said a spokesman for the LBGT PA Caucus, a non -profit organization that promotes the capital LGBTQ+ medical care.
“Shaving resources on gender identity does not erase the need, it only erodes trust, creates confusion and puts patients with greater risk,” said the spokesman. “The doctors and the communities they serve trust the accessible, precise and inclusive orientation to provide safe and effective care.”
The email did not provide details about why HHS directed the CDCs to eliminate the pages or why it went to certain topics. But the issues of some of the retired resources are the objectives for a long time of the Trump administration, which has issued a series of executive actions that limit the rights of transgender and non -binary people and retreated efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion.
In a statement, an HHS spokesman said that “CDCs continue to align their website with administration priorities and executive orders.” The CDC directed CNBC to HHS for comments.
The CDC website on health capital for people with disabilities was online on August 27, according to the Wayback machine, but is offline starting on September 26.
CDC website, Wayback Machine
It is not the first time that the Administration is aimed at health resources on Federal Agencies websites.
Thousands of pages on all websites for CDCs and food and drug administration, among other agencies, were abruptly withdrawn from the end of January under the executive order of President Donald Trump, which prohibits references to gender identity in federal policies and documents. In February, a federal judge ordered the HHS, the CDC and the FDA to temporarily restore public access to the pages while the dispute progresses.
That same judge in July that the Government illegally ordered the massive elimination of the health resources of federal sites and required the agencies to review and restore the affected pages. After that ruling, the Trump administration informed the court on September 19 that most agencies have finished restoring the pages, with 185 return in compliance and only 11 pages of CDC still under review, According to judicial documents. It is not clear how many of the pages withdrawn this month were in question in demand.
It is not clear what pages were still under review as of September 19, and why the CDCs eliminated more pages that same day after the failure.
Attached to the internal email of the CDC there was a spreadsheet of more than a dozen pages that the agency said it had retired from September 19. A separate spreadsheet compiled by agency employees and seen by CNBC included an additional site that seems to be offline.
CNBC verified that the following pages are now offline. The digital file spa machine also shows when they were last active. Several pages were recently in line in early September, according to Wayback Machine, but it is not clear when the CDC officially eliminated them all.
Some pages listed on the calculation sheet attached to the internal CDC email are still online. That includes a page that monitors hospitalizations confirmed by the laboratory between children and adults associated with the respiratory syncitial virus.
