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Google has removed two websites providing “DIY” hormone replacement therapy used in gender-affirming care from search results at the request of the UK government, according to legal letters viewed by 404 Media.
Both sites were temporarily offline after their domain registrar received letters from the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) asking them to suspend their domain names. The sites did not appear in Google search results in the UK in our tests, but Google provides a link to the Lumen database, which keeps a record of takedown notices and other legal removal requests. The Lumen database showed that Google removed the two sites from search results at the request of the UK government. The sites still appear in search results in the United States.
These sites will ship people drugs used in gender affirming care discreetly, and are often used by people who can’t get that care from their healthcare providers, or don’t want to suffer through diagnostic and legislative hurdles to get that care through their healthcare provider.