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Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears

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Preserving Public Health Data Hackathon was held at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and on Zoom.

Participants gathered to back up data from government websites.

The event focused on preserving research on gender identity and diversity issues.

Since Trump ’s inauguration, hundreds of words from “transgender” to “ Latinx ” have been removed.

YRBS is one of many datasets researchers have sought to shore up in a long-running effort to preserve government-funded information as the new administration takes control.

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative ( EDGI ), a network of research professionals that launched a tool during Trump ’s first term to track changes to environmental information on federal websites, relaunched that tracker in March .

The disclaimer on the CDC 's YRBS site is "so extreme, and it’s also just wrong," says Mannix .

She says it makes it harder for researchers to collect public health data.

Mannix worked for the program in Alaska from 2015 until 2023 .

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