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Protesters at a Juneteenth anti-racism rally in Oakland, Calif., last year. (Courthouse News photo / Nicholas Iovino) WASHINGTON (CN) Championing a provision of former President Obama’s landmark health care law, the Biden administration announced Monday that it would restore anti-discrimination protections in health care for gay and transgender patients. While Obama had specified that gender identity was included in the federal law ban discrimination on the basis of sex, the Trump administration rolled such protections back in June 2020, saying it would interpret the word “sex” as “male or female” and “as determined by biology.” The Obama regulation defined gender identity to include “one’s internal sense of gender, which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female.” ....
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., November 12, 2019. | SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced that the agency will interpret federal civil rights law to include a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, leading critics to say it could require hospitals and doctors to perform sex-change surgeries. In an announcement Monday morning, HHS explained that it will interpret Title IXâs explicit prohibition on sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Under the policy, HHS Office for Civil Rights will enforce Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to protect âthe civil rights of individuals who access or seek to access covered health programs or activitiesâ and prevent discrimination âagainst consumers on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.â ....
The Biden administration on Monday reversed a Trump-era decision to allow health care providers to discriminate against LGBTQ people. As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided last June to reverse an Obama-era regulation interpreting the ban on sex discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act to apply to cases of transgender discrimination. In addition to undoing protections for transgender people, that rule change also rolled back protections based on sex stereotyping, women who have had abortions, and those who speak English as a second language. But as of May 10 and just weeks after President Joe Biden declared to transgender Americans in his first address to a joint session of Congress that your president has your back the old rules prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQs are back. ....
Biden restoring healthcare nondiscrimination protections May 10, 2021 | Biden signing executive order (file photo) While the Texas Legislature is debating a bill that would allow discrimination in heath care, the Biden administration announced it will restore protections against discrimination in healthcare based on sexual orientation and gender identity that were taken away by President Trump. The Trump-era executive order allows a medical professional to refuse to treat someone based on that person’s religious belief. Biden’s order would rescind that. In a large city, LGBTQ people have a choice of medical providers and can choose doctors who don’t discriminate. But in an emergency, the Trump order would allow an EMT to refuse treatment to someone based on that EMT’s religious beliefs. And in rural areas, an LGBTQ person might not have a choice of provider. ....