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, Florida, and in the middle of Pride Month.
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. Roger Severino, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, the unit responsible for the rule, said in an interview Friday that the move was “equivalent to housekeeping,” and that the federal government was “updating our books to reflect the legal reality” that sex discrimination language does not explicitly refer to the legal status of transgender people.
and people wonder why he's a fuckhead?
SBS at it again more Trump bashing ..need to stop SBS real soon ...
Good! The medical system is there to help people not to have time and money unnecessarily chewed up by feelings. It does not mean less care! This will benefit many!
Arseholes. This is pure viciousness
So you decided to cut/paste NYT on this one shame it is behind a paywall. NPR article is painted with similar bias but has more detail at least
When you think you purchased a cute intelligent puppy and find out you actually ended up with a stupid barker that hates other dogs.