Tina Smith on Civil Rights

	Tina Smith on Civil Rights

Maintain LGBT health info on federal websites.

Smith signed Letter from 19 Senators to President Trump

We write to you to express serious concerns about the removal of critical LGBT health and scientific information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website, and the removal of LGBT population-based data reports from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website. These actions reveal a pattern of censorship that fosters discrimination and undermines access to evidence-based health care resources that aid millions across the country.

Administration officials claim that this online information is integrated elsewhere, being updated, or temporarily down for maintenance. We have seen previous Administrations undermine LGBT health due to ideological pressure from conservative organizations by abruptly deleting online health information--similarly under the guise of site maintenance.

Why did HHS elect to remove or change the LGBT resources on the website?
What plans do you have to communicate these changes to site users and the public?
Why were policy papers and reports on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection efforts removed or rendered inaccessible from the OMB website?
What federal departments were involved in making this decision?
Will the information on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection from the OMB site be made available on the new website? If so, when?

You have repeatedly broken your campaign promises to support and protect the LGBT community, and this latest assault on a vulnerable population could further compromise the health of more than ten million LGBT people. We are concerned that you are putting politics ahead of science and access to evidence-based health care that is critical for millions, and so we call on you to reverse course to ensure that our federal programs serve the needs of all people. Source: Letter from 19 Senators to President Trump 18LTR-LGBT on Apr 12, 2018

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