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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.

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 2 points 43 minutes ago

Wait, so we can use Talking Rib and Cripple instead?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Once again, those 7 million or so asshats that didn't vote for Kamala because of 'GeNoCiDe JoE', this is on you.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

But not the 75 million fascists

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago

Them too. Both are equally to blame.

[–] o_arguido@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 hours ago

Some women voted to be enslaved. This says a lot about our society and where we should work on.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Nobody realizes that all of these outrageous headlines, quotes and ideas of Trump are just distractions from his actual agenda. He's intentionally flooding the media with this kind of stuff.

This headline in particular is completely irrelevant in the grand sceme of things. So is most other things. Like him saying he's going to own Gaza. Was never going to happen. It's just a distraction and everyone is falling for it again and again.

I learned to ignore most of what Trump is doing and only pay attention to the important stuff that usually ranks second in the news behind this kind of stuff.

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 hours ago

Increasing the power of the executive branch in line with Unitary Executive Theory and following the Project 2025 playbook through Elon to gut social services across the board. He will be the dictator of the country when they're done, with no regulatory agency power to stop the full fascist takeover.

All the money they saved by cutting these essential programs that literally keep people alive (in the US and around the world) and from homelessness will be sent to the rich through tax cuts. It's all very obvious, but since they're hurting nonwhite people the most, hardly anyone who voted for him sees what's happened.

[–] xiao@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago

I still can't understand how people have been able to elect this guy...

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

So the Trump Bible should be changed to Adam and Adam.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

“What is a [REDACTED]?”

[–] zombieshotgun@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

“A miserable pile of [REDACTED]!”

[–] StandStillLaddie@lemmy.world 78 points 13 hours ago

I assume "raping women" and "making fun of the disabled" are still ok. Fascist fuck.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

almost as if terfism and gender criticism is just thinly veiled misogyny and women hating politics

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago

"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".

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 32 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 25 points 9 hours ago

We could say that science is under attack (see following sources). In this case, it belongs.


Can we agree that:

  1. Science is under attack.
  2. Weaponized cisgenderism is science denialism at this point.
  3. Free speech absolutism is a trope to suppress all freedom except for white supremacist rhetoric.
  4. The attacks are not limited to trans but also cis women, including cis women scientists.
  5. 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.

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Well let's just say I'd have rather been in the control of the American Experiment.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 16 points 13 hours ago

bro is getting insecure about his age

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t wait until a stroke puts him in a wheelchair and he has to eat McDonalds through a straw.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

Better if the stroke puts him 6ft under.

[–] gnome@programming.dev 8 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

How are they supposed to refer to a woman then? ~wo~MAN?

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

“Wives” I guess since that seems to be the only position that these people value.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 12 hours ago

Presumably "femoids" or some other 4chan coinage.

[–] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Oh that explains the plane binary...

[–] Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] vivi@slrpnk.net 5 points 12 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the lists I've seen circulating also ban the word female... which is so bizarre

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

They aren't.

Anyone other than no disabled cis hetero white males is irrelevant.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

The fragile snowflake might have a breakdown...