Trump administration disappears White House LGBT webpage
By LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Updated 2:42 pm, Friday, January 20, 2017
President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day scrubbing continued Friday with the disappearance of the WhiteHouse.gov LBGT page.
Techcrunch and others reported that the official White House website no longer has a page explaining the administration’s efforts to protect the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender Americans. The change drew notice hours after the Trump team removed all references to climate change from the website.
Here’s how Techcrunch put the LGBT disappearance:
And so the transition of power begins. First up is the WhiteHouse.gov site where several pages are now changing or altogether disappearing — including a page on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
It’s just been over an hour since Trump took office and whitehouse.gov/lgbt has now been replaced by a Trump “transitionsplash” page.
Trump was sworn in as president amid concerns that his political team had done too little to prepare its government in waiting. It appears the online censors at least were all set to go.