CDC Denies Banning Words; Rights Group Projects Disputed Terms Onto Trump D.C. Hotel
"Diversity." "Transgender." "Fetus." A Washington Post report, which the Trump administration denies, says that CDC scientists were told not to use those and other words in budgetary documents.
The Human Rights Campaign, working with artist Robin Bell, projected words like "fetus" and "transgender" onto the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night, to protest the words being included on a "forbidden" list circulating at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A Washington Post report says staff were instructed not to use the words in budgetary documents.
The Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the CDC, has calling it a "complete mischaracterization" of conversations about
