In what amounts to the third anti-trans endeavor rolled out in a week, the Trump administration has announced plans to rollback Obama-era protections for transgender patients. A proposed rule change by the Department of Health and Human Services…
In what amounts to the third anti-trans endeavor rolled out in a week, the Trump administration has announced plans to rollback Obama-era protections for transgender patients. A proposed rule change by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday said in effect that “gender identity” is not among the protections guaranteed under federal law barring sex discrimination in health care. Advocates fear the change would effectively sanction discrimination against transgender patients. But the proposed rule isn’t official law just yet; there are ways to protest the Trump administration’s rollback of transgender protections in an effort to keep it from being finalized.
