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Medical journal editors must resist #CDC order and #antigender ideology | The #BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253 “It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology. (1/4)
This amounts to the censorship of scientists, breach of rights to free expression, dehumanisation of LGBT individuals, and indifference for the American taxpayers and human beings worldwide who support CDC’s research and have a right to expect that the findings are shared. (2/4)
Make no mistake—this instruction is not about defending women or women’s rights, as the Trump Executive Order implies. It is part of a broader complicity of this US government and other political and religious conservatives with anti-gender ideology that seeks a return to fundamentalist values. (3/4)
Exceptionally well funded, well connected, and growing globally, the anti-gender movement actively opposes pro-equity efforts,threatening women’s sexual and reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and gender equality—and thus health—worldwide. Gender is being dangerously weaponised. Like Trump’s censorship of CDC scientists, journals and editors must resist this too.” (4/4)