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Trump Administration Erases Transgender Civil Rights Protections in Health
Care

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   An empty hallway filled with gurneys at a hospital in Queens. The new
   rule will erase protections for transgender patients against
   discrimination in the health care sector.
   An empty hallway filled with gurneys at a hospital in Queens. The new
   rule will erase protections for transgender patients against
   discrimination in the health care sector.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New
   York Times
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   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
   move announced on the four-year anniversary of the massacre at a gay
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   employment, as well as health care — to narrow the legal definition of
   sex discrimination so that it does not include protections for
   transgender people.

   The Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law often known as Obamacare,
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   identity.” Under the original 2016 rule, health care providers and
   insurers would have been required to provide and cover medically
   appropriate treatment for transgender patients.

   Roger Severino, the director of the Office for Civil Rights at the
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   housekeeping,” and that the federal government was “updating our books
   to reflect the legal reality” that sex discrimination language does not
   explicitly refer to the legal status of transgender people.

   The Obama rule has been tied up in litigation for several years, and
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   coincidental.”

   Transgender rights advocates criticized the timing for another reason:
   the coronavirus.

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   protections, but to gut nondiscrimination protections in the middle of
   a pandemic,” said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, the deputy executive director
   of the National Center for Transgender Equality. “This rule opens a
   door for a medical provider to turn someone away for a Covid-19 test
   just because they happen to be transgender.”

   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.

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   closely tracked this area of civil rights law, said the rule finalized
   Friday needed to be seen as part of a broad pattern of regulatory
   changes that eliminate civil rights protections for transgender people
   and establishes a definition of sex as being biologically determined at
   birth. That idea “is what they are pushing forward on all of these
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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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