Jan. 31, the CDC's chief science officer sent an internal email that informed the agency’s division heads that all papers written or co-written by CDC scientists are being withdrawn and that agency scientists should take their names off of papers they are collaborating on with external scientists, Reuters reported.

Groups with overlapping interests, as well as decades of work by researchers and scientists, were caught up in what experts are calling an “Orwellian” purge to pretend transge

The federal official said that such a list went out from CDC to its divisions. The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. If CDC scientists are co-authors on a paper that originated outside of the agency,

The Friday withdrawal order involves all manuscripts written or co-written by CDC scientists. The review is aimed at removing language.

The Trump administration reportedly wants to erase terms including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, transsexual and nonbinary.