Trump admin plans to undo Obama-era healthcare protections for transgender people

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Hill

The Trump administration plans to get rid of a rule issued by President Obama that prevented healthcare providers and insurers from discriminating against transgender people, The New York Times reported.

The Obama-era rule prohibited discrimination based on race, age, color, national origin, sex or disability for health programs that received federal funds, the Times reported.

Because most practicing physicians accept patients using Medicare or Medicaid, the rule widely applied to healthcare providers across the U.S.

LGBTQ advocates say that Trump’s planned move would erase gains made for transgender Americans and get rid of treatments that transgender people have been denied in the past. The Trump administration argues that they needed to make the changes because a federal judge found parts of the rule unlawful.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/384280-trump-admin-plans-to-undo-obama-era-healthcare-protections-for?rnd=1524338008

[onecent]

1. Well DAMN the trump administrations.....BASTARDS!!!

[sakabatou]

2. Bigoted assholes

[OldHippieChick]

3. They will not be happy until we are taken

back to the 50's and I mean the 1850's!!!

[turbinetree]

4. Hey sexual predator FUCK YOU..............

you been "unlawful" since your first scam became public in 1970................your a piece of shit-------------just think asshole what would you do if one of your kids became a transgender...................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[Mr.Bill]

5. They'll lose this one in court, too.

I wonder if anyone is keeping a running total on how much the Trump gang has spent in taxpayer dollars defending and losing their unconstitutional crap in court.

[Voltaire2]

6. Horrible President is Horrible.

Fuck him. And fuck us if and when we get back in power we don’t prosecute all of these shitheads to the fullest extent of the law.

[Cold War Spook]

7. What has transgender have to do with healthcare?

Oh, that's right. If Obama put it in, Trump will take it out.

[Oneironaut]

8. Of course he did...

Got to have that common enemy of the people to distract from your own screw ups, right Trump?

This matters to everyone. He’s coming for you next.

[truthisfreedom]

9. The hate is great for pee-boy

[Demonaut]

10. Caitlyn will be delighted!

fuck her

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. They could save time by setting a permanent headline: "Trump to undo Obama-era policy to _________"

You fill in the blank.

[area51]

12. Transphobic assholes.

[riversedge]

13. Please donate to @ACLU if you can.

[riversedge]

14. NYTimes: Trump Plan Would Cut Back Health Care Protections for Transgender People

Trump Plan Would Cut Back Health Care Protections for Transgender People


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/politics/trump-transgender-health-care.html
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Activists protesting outside the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan last year after the Trump administration cut protections for transgender people in schools.CreditYana Paskova for The New York Times

By Robert Pear
April 21, 2018

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration says it plans to roll back a rule issued by President Barack Obama that prevents doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies from discriminating against transgender people........................

.....But eight states, a network of Roman Catholic hospitals and the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, representing 19,000 doctors, challenged the Obama-era rule. A federal district judge in Texas temporarily stopped enforcement of the protections for transgender patients, saying that Congress had outlawed discrimination based on sex — “the biological differences between males and females” — but not transgender status.

“Congress did not understand ‘sex’ to include ‘gender identity, ’” said the judge, Reed O’Connor, in Fort Worth. In the Affordable Care Act, he said, Congress “adopted the binary definition of sex.”

But Jennifer C. Pizer, the law and policy director at Lambda Legal, a gay rights group, said, “That is an excruciatingly narrow and legally incorrect definition of the term ‘sex’ that would jeopardize legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.”

Doctors, hospitals and states in the Texas case also objected to a provision of the federal rule that they said put pressure on them to provide or pay for abortion-related services. The judge blocked this provision too.

Roger Severino, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, said it was necessary to re-examine the rule.

[riversedge]

15. k for visibility