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Prof. Catherine Flick (catherineflick@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 04:53:45 JST Prof. Catherine Flick

These two paragraphs in the BMJ are just such an indictment of the current US regime.
https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253
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1. Make no mistake—this instruction is not about defending women or women’s rights, as the Trump Executive Order implies. It is part of a broader complicity of this US government and other political and religious conservatives with anti-gender ideology that seeks a return to fundamentalist values. Exceptionally well funded, well connected, and growing globally, the anti-gender movement actively opposes pro-equity efforts, threatening women’s sexual and reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and gender equality—and thus health—worldwide. Gender is being dangerously weaponised. Like Trump’s censorship of CDC scientists, journals and editors must resist this too. The US was considered a world leader in public health and research. With one repressive stroke that reputation risks being shattered and broken. If anything is forbidden now, it is that medical and science journals, whose duty is to stand for integrity and equity, should bow to political or ideological censorship.
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