The Trump administration is now being sued for allowing healthcare workers to refuse to treat trans

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patients

A coalition of LGBT+ medical clinics are suing the Trump administration for removing discrimination protections for trans people in healthcare settings that mean doctors can refuse to treat trans patients.

The Trump administration announced the rollback of healthcare protections for trans patients on June 12, the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

This reversed changes to federal guidelines made by Barack Obama’s administration in 2016, which expanded sex-based protections in healthcare to include gender identity.

LGBT+ clinics and organisations are suing to block the rule, which was issued by The Department of Health and Human Services.

[link:https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/23/donald-trump-trans-healthcare-discrimination-lawsuit-medical-clinics-lgbt-lambda-legal/|]

The cruelty is the whole point. So in the middle of a frigging Pandemic, they want to let Doctors refuse to treat someone who is trans? And announcing it on the anniversary of the worst massacre of the LGBTQI+ community on American soil? They are so fucking hideous it is untrue. This will be struck down -apart from anything else SCOTUS has set a precedent on this with the LGBTQI+ employment rights decision - but in the meantime it is great to see what the priorities in the Health Department are when there are over 120,000 dead in 4 months. These decision makers who enable this shameful bigotry need to be named and shamed and shunned when Trump is booted out. There can be no quarter. People who are instinctively this cruel should have no place in normal society.

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1. I fail to understand how any medical personnel could refuse to treat a patient.

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2. Healthcare workers who for whatever reason in their deranged ignorant heads refuse

treatment of trans or anyone should be should be banned from "any" healthcare employment across the nation.