Apparently, in 2025, not even the President of the United States is allowed to clean up the government’s clutter without a federal judge throwing a tantrum. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John Bates—yes, a George W. Bush appointee—ordered the Trump Administration to restore the gender ideology webpages it had the audacity to delete. That’s right, the federal government is now being micromanaged down to… websites.
Last month, President Trump did what any sane leader trying to restore common sense would do: he scrubbed public health websites of all the woke nonsense tied to “gender ideology.” You know, the same ideology that insists biology is just a suggestion and that men can get pregnant if you squint hard enough. But before the digital dust could even settle, a group called Doctors for America—basically a woke advocacy group wrapped in lab coats—filed a lawsuit faster than you can say “preferred pronouns.”
Their argument? That removing this content somehow prevents doctors from “helping patients.” Because nothing screams cutting-edge medical care like needing a government website to remind you of the difference between male and female—or, in their world, the absence of that difference.
Judge Bates, playing the role of judicial activist rather than impartial arbiter, sided with the doctors. He ordered the Trump Administration to restore the pages by midnight, as if it’s the final act of some dramatic Broadway show. According to Bates, the administration failed to provide a “reasoned explanation” for removing the content. Apparently, “because it’s extremist nonsense” isn’t reasoned enough for the D.C. courts.
Bates went on to claim that the removal could be “detrimental to public health.” Detrimental? Really? The last time I checked, medical science thrived for thousands of years without the CDC hosting a glossary of made-up genders. Yet here we are, pretending that deleting a few webpages is equivalent to banning penicillin.
The Trump Administration’s response? An immediate appeal—because, believe it or not, the President should be allowed to manage executive agencies without getting a permission slip from a federal judge.
This is the left’s playbook: when they can’t win elections, they run to the courts. They want activist judges to serve as their personal referees, ensuring their ideology stays embedded in government—even when voters clearly reject it.
Welcome to 2025, where deleting a webpage is now considered a constitutional crisis.