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Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health
Care

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     * Published June 12, 2020Updated Aug. 26, 2020

   WASHINGTON — 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
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   The rule, which does not differ much from a proposed version released
   last year, is part of a broad Trump administration effort across
   multiple areas of policy — including education, housing, and
   employment, as well as health care — to narrow the legal definition of
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   The Obama rule has been tied up in litigation for several years, and
   the Trump administration has declined to enforce it, citing a court
   ruling from a judge in Fort Worth. That means that the final rule does
   not have any immediate practical effects. Other courts that considered
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   interpretation.

   Mr. Severino, who attained prominence as a social conservative before
   joining the Trump administration, said that health providers were still
   free to adopt their own gender identity policies, as were health
   insurers.
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   The announcement also prompted an outcry from the Human Rights
   Campaign, a prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
   advocacy group, which said it plans to sue the Trump administration.

   “We will not let this attack on our basic right to be free from
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   Mr. Severino, who spent seven years in civil-rights enforcement at the
   Justice Department and once oversaw the DeVos Center for Religion and
   Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, said that the Trump
   administration would defend the decision in court.

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   different policy angles across different agencies,” she said.

   Rolling back the health care rule has been a cause for social
   conservatives since its implementation, including Mr. Severino, who
   criticized it while at the Heritage Foundation. They have accused the
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   pregnancy termination. And it rolls back requirements that providers
   and insurers must routinely notify patients about the availability of
   foreign language translations of important documents.

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