A U.S. District Judge ruled that the Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management did not follow necessary laws in its order for the Department of Health and Human Services to expedite compliance with an executive order on 'gender ideology.' In implementing the order, agencies swiftly deleted numerous healthcare websites containing crucial information, opting for extreme removal of any offending language without plans to modify or restore them. The ruling focused on the procedural aspects of the deletions rather than the ideological content, highlighting violations of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Given a 48-hour timeline to comply with the order, many agencies opted for what Judge Bates describes as 'the most extreme approach: fully removing any webpage with any offending language, no matter how minimal, without any stated intent to modify and republish the webpage.'
The government took down websites with, the plaintiffs argued, vital health information on topics like youth mental health, vaping, HIV testing, opioid abuse, contraception, osteoporosis, menopause, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, and instructions for clinicians on how to prescribe and administer FDA-approved drugs.
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