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The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay

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Tags: transgender, discrimination, donald trump, healthcare, usa, gay, rights.lgbt, rights.trans, policy.health, author.katelyn burns, source.vox
https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/24/21234532/trump-administration-health-care-discriminate-lgbtq

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Title
The Trump administration will now allow doctors to discriminate against LGBTQ people
Authors
Katelyn Burns
Published
Apr 24 2020
Word count
1738 words

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  1. kfwyre
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    I've said it before, as I learned it with Prop 8: it hurts so much more when somehing you have is taken from you, rather than just never having it in the first place. And just to make it clear:...

    I've said it before, as I learned it with Prop 8: it hurts so much more when somehing you have is taken from you, rather than just never having it in the first place.

    And just to make it clear: this is a conscious decision to roll back medical protections in the midst of a pandemic. It is openly threatening to LGBT people, particularly trans people. That it was released on the anniversary of the Pulse shooting is probably simply an oversight, but should you argue that's even further evidence of a threat, you won't find me stopping you. This administration has been neither subtle about their contempt nor sincere in their respect for the dead.

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  2. Kuromantis
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    The Trump administration has finalized a Department of Health and Human Services administrative rule rolling back health care discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, according to an HHS press release. The rule was released Friday, June 12, the fourth anniversary of the Pulse shooting, which left 49 victims, including many queer and trans people, dead in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub.

    First proposed in May 2019, the rule reverses an Obama-era interpretation that sex discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act applied to discrimination against queer and trans people, as well as people who are seeking or have had an abortion.

    “HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology,” reads the agency’s press release.

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