In what is becoming a trend, the Trump administration is once again trying to make LGBTQ+ people invisible. The administration has erased the lesbian and bisexual women’s health pages from the website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Just this past year, the same agency sought to erase LGBTQ+ elders from a critical aging survey. LGBTQ+ older people face much greater health challenges than the population at large and, in particular, research has shown that older bisexual women and lesbians have more challenges with healthy weight and higher rates of cardiovascular disease. More, not less, attention needs to be brought to the health challenges older lesbians and bisexual women face. We call on the administration to restore these critical resources. SAGE and the older women for whom we advocate refuse to be invisible.
