Exclusive: Trump administration banned chosen names at FDA, CDC, NIH under new gender policy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

April 30, 2025, 4:04 p.m. ET


Employees of the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being told to use their legal names in official systems, a move the agencies say is in response to President Donald Trump's executive order that reversed protections for transgender people.

The policies affect transgender employees who use a name that aligns with their gender identity rather than the sex they were assigned at birth. But the policies can also affect married women who choose to go by their maiden names at work, and people who go by middle names, initials, or shorten their first names, for example, from James to Jim.

The FDA, CDC, and NIH policies go beyond a January directive from the Office of Personnel Management that ordered agencies to purge contracts and content related to gender identity and turn off features on email platforms “that prompt users for their pronouns.” Both agencies are part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Media representatives for the White House, the HHS, NIH, and the CDC did not respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment. The FDA website refers media inquiries to HHS.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/30/fda-nih-hhs-name-gender-policy-trump/83254129007/

[CincyDem]

1. "Finally, it's time someone addressed this critical national issue"....said NO ONE !!!

Almost every day since inauguration, I’ve seen these asshats do something that’s the dumbest, most inane trivial action I’ve ever seen…until the next day when they find a new level of of asshat-ness.

W. T. F.

[taxi]

2. Live by the sword, die by the sword

We could insist that every document, form, and communication by any department not use initials or shortened versions of the names. No more CDC references. The agency is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. All archives containing a mislabeling will need to be corrected. All internet references to CDC will have to be scrubbed. Every form will need to be revised and reprinted.

[Red Mountain]

3. Maybe Doge will go ahead and assign everyone a barcode

to go along with their SS number to use as a name.

Efficient.

[GiqueCee]

4. Such petty, infantile...

... obsessions with non-issues that are reflective of Conservative bigotry, but serve no worthwhile purpose in really making America great again. But it tells the world that the weasels have taken over Toad Hall and don't know what the fuck they're doing, so they gleefully trash the place, just as the J6ers did, and were subsequently pardoned for their obscene desecration.
Maybe the the way to rid the world of the GOP is to abandon the two-party system altogether, and force prospective candidates to run on their own documented merits. That would remove the likes of Empty Greene, and most other Republicans, from contention for positions of power for which they are demonstrably unfit.

[SCantiGOP]

5. James Donald Bowman

Please use his birth certificate name when referring to the Vice President.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. My first thought too ! Only legal names should appear on ballots, to avoid confusing voters !

If Dems get sufficient control in 2026, they should push for such a bill.

[SCantiGOP]

8. Dems were on the other side

in 1976. James Earl Carter had to go to court to get his name on the ballot as Jimmy.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. Is there some devious reason for this demand?

Or are they just bigoted assholes?