Sebelius’ Spokesman Says HHS Will Limit ‘Measurements of Gender’ in Federal Health Care Database to ‘Male’ and ‘Female’—LGBT Categories Will Not Be In

CNS News reports:

A spokesman for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com yesterday that a new federal database that will collect information on all beneficiaries of government-run or government-supported health-care programs will only use the categories “male” and “female”—not lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender--when making entries for a person’s gender.

The language in the Senate health care bill that directs the HHS secretary to create this database makes no mention of “male” or “female” but specifically mandates that she “develop standards for the measurement of gender.”

The language mandating creation of the database—which is supposed to be used “to detect and monitor trends in health disparities” in the U.S. population--is on pages 410-414 of the bill that was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on July 15.

Big Brother wants to monitor you.