"Nearly one year after researchers sued the federal government for removing articles from its patient safety website for allegedly promoting "gender ideology," the government agreed Wednesday to permanently restore the papers and not remove any more titles for the same reasons. As soon as President Donald Trump took office last January, he issued an executive order instructing federal agencies to "remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology.""
"The editors of the government-operated Patient Safety Net, a website that hosts case reports and other medical information, identified multiple articles they believed violated the order. Two articles were subsequently removed after the authors declined to change their work. According to court filings and a news release from the American Civil Liberties Union, which argued the case against the federal government, the articles in question included:"
"In May, a federal district court issued a temporary injunction restoring the files. The settlement Wednesday makes that decision final. "This agreement is a win for the First Amendment and for public health," Scarlet Kim, senior staff attorney with the ACLU, said in a news release. "The government cannot censor medical research because it acknowledges the existence of transgender people. Research free from ideological interference by the government promotes rigor, objectivity, and scientific value, which benefits everyone.""
Researchers sued the federal government after multiple articles were removed from the Patient Safety Net website for allegedly promoting gender ideology. The presidential executive order directed federal agencies to remove statements or messages that "promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology." Site editors identified several articles they believed violated the order; two were removed when authors declined to revise their work. Plaintiffs Royce and Schiff filed suit against HHS, AHRQ, and OPM asserting First Amendment and Administrative Procedure Act violations. A federal district court issued a temporary injunction in May restoring the files. A settlement now permanently restores the papers and bars further removals for the same reasons.
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