One tends to think of government as slow-moving, but President Trump’s order to stop preaching the rainbow flag religion seems to have been implemented at near-Silicon Valley speed. As of Friday evening, all of the CDC pages that recognized gender as distinct from sex seem to have disappeared. All of the links below, for example, went to “Not Found”

As of the January 21, 2025 archive.org capture:
A treasured section on “Latinx” is now gone forever (except for all of the copies at archive.org and at universities).
Related language update: the definition of the word “racism” has quietly been changed. My 1986 Webster’s dictionary defines it as “racial discrimination” (which most people would still assume?). In 2025 M-W.com defines it as “a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits” (ie: believing in genetics and DNA). By the new definition, racism really is everywhere?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism