Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health Care

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html

Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health Care
A rule finalized on Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services means that the federal government no longer recognizes gender identity as an avenue for sex discrimination in health care.
By Margot Sanger-Katz and Noah Weiland
June 12, 2020

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday finalized a regulation that will erase protections for transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies, a move announced on the four-year anniversary of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando and in the middle of Pride Month.

The rule, which does not differ much from a proposed version released last year, is part of a broad Trump administration effort across multiple areas of policy — including education, housing, and employment, as well as health care — to narrow the legal definition of sex discrimination so that it does not include protections for transgender people.

The Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law often known as Obamacare, established broad civil rights protections in health care, barring discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in “any health program or activity” that receives federal financial assistance.

The Obama administration interpreted the provision about sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of “gender identity.” Under the original 2016 rule, health care providers and insurers would have been required to provide and cover medically appropriate treatment for transgender patients.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. He isn't a bigot he hates EVERYONE except Billionaires.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. The goal is to kill them with the virus, take away their healthcare.

Now, this is not a surprise to me because I said 4 yrs ago they wanted us dead.


That they were traitors.

That they were criminals, and Hillary WASNT.

[Cha]

3. Big Bloated Bullies need to

Go Away!

[John Fante]

4. During Pride Month. On the four-year anniversary of the Orlando massacre.

Pure coincidences, surely. /s