On Friday, June 12, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
   (HHS), under the administration of President Donald Trump, has
   finalized a rule affecting the text of the Affordable Care Act.

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   Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for
   Transgender Equality — a nonprofit social equality organization
   headquartered in Washington, D.C. — has slammed the ruling, noting
   that:

     “Even as the death toll and catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic
     grows and people take to the streets, the Trump administration
     remains focused on denying equal access to healthcare to transgender
     people. […] The new rules released [on June 12] are hateful and
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   For this reason, the WHO stress how important the implementation of
   gender-affirmative healthcare is. This term refers to “social,
   psychological, behavioral or medical (including hormonal treatment or
   surgery) interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s
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   Health inequities affect all of us differently. Visit our dedicated hub
   for an in-depth look at social disparities in health and what we can do
   to correct them.

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