Trump’s HHS Agrees to Restore LGBTQ+, Reproductive Health Data

Federal LGBTQ and reproductive health web pages taken down by the Trump administration will be restored online following a litigation settlement between the US Department of Health and Human Services and several public health organizations.

“This is a clear win for evidence,” Aaron Carroll, president and CEO of AcademyHealth, said in a Tuesday statement announcing the settlement. AcademyHealth, the Washington State Medical Association, and other public health associations sued the HHS in May for abruptly deleting troves of public health data following two January executive orders that targeted gender identity and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Public health data access “saves lives as it helps clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and communities make better decisions. Restoring these webpages brings critical guidance and data back within reach,” Carroll said.

The website and datasets in dispute were used daily by health professionals, nonprofit organizations, and state and local authorities to care for their patients, provide resources to their communities, and promote public health.

In a statement, an HHS spokesperson said the department “remains committed to its mission of removing radical gender and DEI ideology from federal programs, subject to applicable law, to ensure taxpayer dollars deliver meaningful results for the American people.”

The groups in the lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, said that the data deletion “came as a shock to the medical and scientific communities, which had come to rely on them to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks, assist physicians and other clinicians in daily care, and inform the public about a wide range of healthcare issues.”

The plaintiffs alleged the administration’s actions were unlawful under the US Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act.

The case is Wash. State Med. Ass’n v. Kennedy, W.D. Wash., No. 2:25-cv-00955, settlement agreement 8/15/25