TransLatin@ Coalition President Bamby Salcedo. (Photo by Paolo Riveros) Disregarding pleas from transgender advocates, the Trump administration made final on Friday a rule enabling health care providers to refuse care to transgender people, including gender reassignment surgery.
The rule change at the Department of Health & Human Services reverses 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.
The change had been in the works for some time, but HHS announced it was final at 4 pm on a Friday just before the weekend in the middle of Pride Month.
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