Doctors have accused US health officials of scrubbing their peer-reviewed articles from a government website because they made passing references to LGBTQ patients.

Associate Professor Gordon Schiff and Dr Celeste Royce are suing the government’s Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (ARHQ) over papers published on a website for case reports and commentaries called the Patient Safety Network.

Professor Schiff, an internal medicine physician, had published a 2022 review of suicide assessment and prevention that listed LGBTQ patients as a high-risk group.

Obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Royce had published a 2020 case report on endometriosis that noted transgender and gender-diverse patients could develop the condition.