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The fate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Health and Human Services Department is still pending, though it's likely he'll be confirmed.

But the Trump administration issued a memo last week to the nation's top public health agencies instructing them all

to end, quote, programs that use taxpayer money to promote gender ideology. These agencies were also

instructed to disable any related information from their websites. Some visitors to those sites have since seen error messages

when looking for guidance or data. Right now at the CDC's website, for example, if you log on,

there's a little yellow banner at the top of the homepage that says CDC's website is being

modified to comply with President Trump's executive orders.

The result of those modifications is that now there is less communication and less data available

for anyone looking for guidance with us to talk about what reports and data have

disappeared from these websites and what that might mean for your health.

We are joined by

Caitlin Jettelina, epidemiologist, data scientist, and author of a newsletter, your local epidemiologist.

Caitlin, welcome. Thank you for having me. So let's just start by talking about what's missing in

terms of information. And I'm going to kind of break this down

by groups. Do we know what's missing as it relates to kids or LGBTQ kids specifically at this point?

Yeah, so, I mean, it's challenging to note, right? So without clear explanations or any sort of transparency, it's really hard to assess what's happening, what's missing, and honestly, what also may just be manipulated in the data.

But what we do know is that a lot of these changes that are happening at HHS, which includes CDC, is at the heart of these sweeping executive orders, particularly two that requires removing so-called woke language from all communications and data sets.

And so that includes a long list, but some of that is the word gender, the word

transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBTQ, and so on and so forth. And while some of

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