Harvard Doctors Sue HHS for Studies Pulled Over Gender Terms (1)

March 12, 2025, 5:18 PM UTCUpdated: March 12, 2025, 6:04 PM UTC

Two physicians and Harvard Medical School professors sued the Trump administration for taking down peer reviewed articles from a patient safety website because they contained words related to gender ideology.

Medical doctors Gordon Schiff and Celeste Royce alleged the US Department of Health and Human Services unlawfully suppressed their speech when they removed certain peer reviewed articles at the end of January to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order ending government programs promoting “gender ideology,” according to their complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, ...

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