Earlier this month, the Fraudulent Trump Maladministration has scrubbed any mention of LGBTQ+ issues, vaccines, climate change, Black History Month, the Fourteenth Amendment, and God knows what else from U.S. government websites from the Department of Agriculture to the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe.
The National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) seems to have disappeared from its landing pages. The ongoing study focused on topics such as nutrition, mental health, physical activity, and sexual activity for high school students.
The tool used to explore the data is now offline.
A version of the page, captured by the internet archive the WayBack Machine, shows the page was live as recently as mid-January.
The archived pages show that one aspect of study included children who "felt that they were ever treated badly or unfairly because they are or people think they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning".
Another page dedicated to "Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth" was also not available on Saturday morning, though the page is archived by the WayBack Machine.
A page that collated data related to "Health Disparities Among LGBTQ Youth" also appears to be gone.
"Stigma, discrimination, and other factors put them at increased risk for negative health and life outcomes," an archived version of the page states.
The "T" and "Q" were erased from every mention of "LGBTQ" on the National Parks Service webpage for the Stonewall Inn National Monument. Timothy Leonard, Northeast Program Manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, responded to community objections to the move, stating,
“The National Park Service exists to not only protect and preserve our most cherished places but to educate its millions of annual national park visitors about the inclusive, full history of America. Erasing letters or webpages does not change the history or the contributions of our transgender community members at Stonewall or anywhere else. History was made here and civil rights were earned because of Stonewall. And we’re committed to ensuring more people know that story and how it continues to influence America today. Stonewall inspires and our parks must continue to include diverse stories that welcome and represent the people that shaped our nation.”
Even census data were disappeared, presumably because there were data in there that acknowledged the existence of persons who identify as LGBTQ, non-white, or female.
At the same time, the Pentagon announced a new program of "rotating" media access to its press briefing room, booting out NBC News, The New York Times, National Public Radio and Politico from their dedicated workspaces in favor of right-wing propaganda outlets One America Noise Nutwork, the New York Post, Breitbart Noise, and the Tinfoil Haberdashery fan page on Trump Social.
Just kidding with that last one. That spot goes to the Huffington Post, which I was not aware did any actual reporting of its own. (Apparently, they don't.)
Now we also have the White House evicting the Associated Press from Oval Office events and Air Force One because it wouldn’t go along with Mercurial President Trump’s unilateral decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
The squabble over the Gulf of Mexico, of course, is a lot of trumpery designed to distract everyone from all the truly horrible stuff out of this Most Corrupt Administration — from Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department, to the leaving of tons and tons of food aid shipments to rot at U.S. ports, to Trump's abject capitulation to Putin's aggression in Ukraine, to the millions of Latino Americans prisoned without trial in U.S. concentration camps, to Elon's unvetted Twitler Youth taking control of all your financial data at the Treasury Department.
Yet it's also a test from the Trumpsters to test how far they can go coercing news media to go along with their arbitrarily renaming things. Like telling us that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.
Stop the presses; I want to get off.
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