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Lesbian and bisexual resources are quietly dropped from HHS website
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lesbian-bisexual-resources-are-dropped-hhs-website-n859041The Department of Health and Human Services quietly removed lesbian and bisexual content from its women's health website last fall, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit government watchdog group.
The findings, released on Wednesday, noted that the HHS-operated Office of Women's Health (OWH) "removed a webpage with extensive information about lesbian and bisexual health, and links that correspond to that webpage." The removal, according to the report, happened between September and October 2017.
The OWH website, womenshealth.gov, provides a wide variety of resources for women, from information on asthma to tips on healthy eating. Since May 2017, OWH has altered or removed several links and webpages from the website, which has been visited approximately 700,000 times over the past 30 days. The removal of other content will be the subject of subsequent reports, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
In a statement, an HHS spokesperson said the LGBTQ health content was removed in an effort to "provide the most accurate health information" on the site.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lesbian-bisexual-resources-are-dropped-hhs-website-n859041
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https://web.archive.org/web/20170919061935/https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/lesbian-and-bisexual-health
At least there is still a record of the page the way it used to be... it's a damn shame just to remove the information from the original site!
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At least there is still a record of the page the way it used to be... it's a damn shame just to remove the information from the original site!
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Better than anti-LBGTQ propaganda that I'm sure some would love to have displayed on a government website. 
