FDA scientists have been instructed to avoid using words like "woman," "disabled," and "elderly" in external communications, per a leaked list circulating within the agency.

The directive, reportedly linked to Trump’s executive order against "gender ideology," has caused confusion and concern.

The White House denies most words are banned but confirms restrictions on terms related to gender and diversity.

Scientists fear these limits will hinder medical research and public health efforts.

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[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 28 points 12 hours ago

We could say that science is under attack (see following sources). In this case, it belongs.

Can we agree that:

Science is under attack.
Weaponized cisgenderism is science denialism at this point.
Free speech absolutism is a trope to suppress all freedom except for white supremacist rhetoric.
The attacks are not limited to trans but also cis women, including cis women scientists.
Trans rights stem from a complex set of fundamental freedoms, and opposing them is profoundly fascist.

If anyone does not agree, ex post facto, with the above points is a literal nazi apologist at this point, and can go debate if FElon's salute was nazi or not. I don't have the time of day for this though.

Can we further agree that scientists must be in the social and ideological avant-garde and opposing fascism, like Einstein did?

Then we see at a time that science is under attack, in the context of a petrifying fascist power grab from anti-vax charlatans, and in the name of science innocent people are vilified and persecuted, that the relevance of these developments ought to be front and center to all science-related communities, much like this once were:

Network structure and influence of the climate change counter-movement

Because this more or less shows the fossil fuel interests that are behind all this.