Trump Administration Moves to Roll Back Protections for Transgender Patients
Posted on AllSides May 25th, 2019
From The Center
The Trump administration proposed a new set of rules on Friday paring protections for transgender patients in health-care settings, part of a legal effort by the administration to more narrowly define the scope of sex discrimination.
The new rules would end an Obama-era policy expanding an antidiscrimination provision in the Affordable Care Act to cover bias against people who identify with a gender other than the one listed on their birth certificate. The Obama-era rule, issued in 2016, was blocked by a federal judge in Texas who said the...
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