Alie Ward

Yeah.

For sure.

And, you know, we're talking about bacteria like chlamydia, gonorrhea.

I understand that bacterial vaginosis has been recently classified as potentially sexually transmitted.

Let's talk about it.

What's bacterial?

What's viral?

Let's start with the ones that are wipeoutable by antibiotics.

I'm glad it's still there.

Yep.

So on our website at alibor.com slash ology slash venereology, we'll link the CDC's screening recommendations and considerations referenced in treatment guidelines and original sources, which is the site.

And you can sort that by infection or by population.

Very handy.

And shortly after, Donald Trump issued a post-inauguration executive order titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, which, side note, erroneously stated that only two biological sexes exist.

You can see our neuroendocrinology episode for more on that, as well as intersex individuals.

The executive order demanded that all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology must be removed, which puts the entire population, including infants born with congenital infections, at risk of death.

to have researchers retract or pause any manuscripts in the process of publication, which included these newly forbidden terms, including gender, transgender, pregnant person or pregnant people, LGBTQ, transsexual, non-binary, assigned male or female at birth, and biologically male or biologically female.

So within a few weeks of this, in early 2025, a federal judge ordered that

those pages be restored, saying that the now-banned information included more than academic references and they're vital for real-time clinical decision-making.

So if you ever try to admonish me or this podcast by saying we should keep politics and science separate... You have a lot to learn.