End CDC collection of gender identity data
What the document says“The CDC should immediately end its collection of data on gender identity”
The chapter states that collecting the data legitimizes what it calls the unscientific notion that men can become women and vice versa, and encourages what it describes as ever-multiplying subjective identities.
What the document actually says“The CDC should immediately end its collection of data on gender identity”
The CDC should stop collecting this data right away.
The CDC asks people about gender identity in surveys. The book says that should stop at once.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8615
Addresses the chapter's subject. The chapter asked specifically that the Centers for Disease Control end its collection of gender identity data; this order sets a government-wide policy on recognizing two sexes and on federal funds rather than naming that data collection.
The book asked a health agency to drop one kind of data. The order never names that agency or that data. It sets a broad rule on two sexes and on federal funds. The rule reaches every agency.
12 agency rules
- Terminology Relating to Sex; Technical AmendmentsHomeland Security Department, Office of the Secretary, Transportation Security Administration · May 21, 2025
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and AffordabilityHealth and Human Services Department · June 25, 2025
- Wake Island CodeDefense Department · July 24, 2025
- Litigation; AmendmentDefense Department, Army Department · August 8, 2025
- Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2026 Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment and Coverage Policies; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; and Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · November 5, 2025
- Identification (ID) Cards for Members of the Uniformed Services, Their Dependents, and Other Eligible Individuals; AmendmentDefense Department, Office of the Secretary · December 1, 2025
- Recruitment and Relocation Incentive WaiversPersonnel Management Office · December 15, 2025
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance RulesState Department · January 27, 2026
- Protecting Life in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Visas: Enhancing Vetting and Combatting Fraud in the Diversity Immigrant Visa ProgramState Department · March 11, 2026
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; and Basic Health ProgramHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · May 20, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.