Harvard Medical physicians sue over removal of articles mentioning ‘LGBTQ’ from government website
The ACLU, which represents the plaintiffs, says that the Trump administration has "no business dictating what facts are permissible, or dictating what views researchers....can express."
Two physicians are suing the Trump administration over the removal of two research papers from a government website, because they included the terms “LGBTQ” and “trans(gender).”
The suit is being filed by two physicians at Harvard Medical School, Gordon Schiff and Celeste Royce, over the removal of two articles from the Patient Safety Network (PSNet), which is run by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The researchers, who are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Massachusetts and the Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School, are arguing that AHRQ’s action amounts to a violation of the freedom of speech.
