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.
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.
Once again, those 7 million or so asshats that didn’t vote for Kamala because of ‘GeNoCiDe JoE’, this is on you.
But not the 75 million fascists
Them too. Both are equally to blame.
You’re either with me or against me 💯
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.
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As a country we were given the choice between letting one house burn vs letting the entire city burn, and instead of making a helpful choice a group of people decided to protest fire, and yet more decided to just sit at home while the world burned around them.
They knew what the choices were. Trump flat out said he didn’t care about the constitution, didn’t care about human life, and didn’t care about democracy.
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Wait, you think letting houses burn down is “championing”?
Where the fuck do you live? I want nothing to do with it.
Wait, so we can use Talking Rib and Cripple instead?
My friend is a proposal manager for a non-profit. She had to advise some of her scientists to use ‘non-man person’ for a proposal for a grant to study breast cancer. I wish I were joking
How this continues to be ok with Americans is beyond me. Change stops on an individual level. Your friend should have called bullshit then and there and refuse to use non-man person. Over 50% of the goddamn population is a non-man person.
Distractions. There are a lot of them and most of us are replying to the distractions with emotional messages and Hitler/nazi-musk memes instead of doing our due diligence to find out what’s going on and how we can stop it. The memes, they do nothing but give us the sense of camaraderie without direction or objective. And any time you tell the people making them that, they get mad and block you or downvote you.
I propose dividing people into penised people and penisless people. I’m sure vagina is banned too but I can’t remember
The preferred term is “non-penised person at birth”, thank you!
I wonder if they can use the word female or individuals with XX chromosome.
bro is getting insecure about his age
Some women voted to be enslaved. This says a lot about our society and where we should work on.
You have seen them wear I want to be grabbed by the pussy shirts? Words have become meaningless to them.
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.
The only allowed words are “straight”, “white”, “Christian” and “man”.
“What is a [REDACTED]?”
“A miserable pile of [REDACTED]!”
I still can’t understand how people have been able to elect this guy…
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Presumably “femoids” or some other 4chan coinage.
I guess “Females”
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I’m pretty sure the lists I’ve seen circulating also ban the word female… which is so bizarre
Unman
Oh that explains the plane binary…
They aren’t.
Anyone other than nondisabled cis hetero white males is irrelevant.
Preferably, they won’t. At all. “Non-male person” at best.
“Wives” I guess since that seems to be the only position that these people value.
More Project 2025 and Nazi crap coming from the Government of Putin.
So the Trump Bible should be changed to Adam and Adam.
That is some straight up Freudian shit
What’s Freudian about it? I don’t really know anything about Freud other than jokes, but I thought he was all about penis envy and mothers… Or something like that? 😅
Sometimes a person says what they actually mean instead of what they mean to say. We call that a Freudian Dick.
Ohhh like a Freudian slip thing, I get it! I’m not sure they’ve even been trying to hide their contempt for women, disabled people, or elderly people though!
