Multiple LGBT health resources were removed from a popular HHS website last fall, a new report finds.

A webpage devoted to lesbian and bisexual health, links to LGBT topics and other references were removed between September and October 2017 from WomensHealth.gov, a website maintained by HHS’ Office on Women’s Health. The removals were tracked in a pair of reports by the Sunlight Foundation's Web Integrity Project and shared with POLITICO.

HHS said the pages and links, some of which were first posted in 2012, were taken down as part of a routine update. "The outdated lesbian and bisexual health pages were removed and the health content was integrated into the relevant health topics pages across the website,” an HHS spokesperson said.

However, the Sunlight Foundation determined that existing health topic pages do not appear to have been updated with new material and the now-missing lesbian and bisexual health content was not integrated elsewhere. For instance, HHS removed a page that raises multiple LGBT-specific questions — such as “What are important health issues that lesbians and bisexual women should discuss with their health care professionals?” — that are not explicitly addressed elsewhere across the website. “Bisexual and lesbian health” was also removed from the website’s listing of more than 100 different health care topics, which still includes other population-specific topics like “breastfeeding information for African-American communities.”

A lesbian and bisexual health fact sheet also was removed from its web address. Sunlight Foundation researchers say the fact sheet was quietly moved to a different location in the website's archives and "placed on an island.” No links currently direct to it. Read more via Politico