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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. (Including gender, transgender, pregnant person, LGBT, and more) (insidemedicine.substack.com)

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[–] ayyy 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do you want to limit free speech?

[–] Tb0n3 1 points 1 week ago

It's less about free speech and more about accuracy of language. When the waters are constantly muddied by making meaningless distinctions of a "pregnant woman" vs "pregnant person" when a man cannot get pregnant you're just making things confusing to stroke your own ego.