“How can the government decide what words a journal can use to describe a scientific reality? That reality needs to be named,” one journal editor said.
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The “forbidden terms” CDC employees are supposed to avoid are, in full: Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, and biologically female, according to Inside Medicine.
I just can’t wrap my head around why the words gender or pregnant are so dangerous.
Surely this is ripe for some malicious compliance.
100GB of CDC data is on the Internet Archive, there’s surely a hero around somewhere!
