Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care | CNN Politics
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The Biden administration announced a new rule Friday expanding safeguards against potential discrimination of gay and transgender Americans seeking medical care, in a reversal of Trump-era limitations that nixed federal health protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
  • adhdplantdev@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Can anyone give us summary over what does enables other than insurance companies and health care providers Can’t Turn You Away for simply lgbtq+

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Obama included gender, independent of sex, in anti-discrimination law for healthcare. Trump repealed it. Biden put it back.

      • adhdplantdev@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        I mean obviously that’s good news but how does this change anything besides adding additional guidelines to what a healthcare provider can refuse

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          It protects gender-affirming care on a federal level, for one. It also makes it illegal to discriminate against transgender and nonbinary people pursuing gender-related care.

          • adhdplantdev@lemm.ee
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            5 months ago

            Okay that’s good news but how does that relate to states that do have bans on gender affirming care like Texas? Does this give the hospital room to fight or something?

            • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              It overrules them. States cannot enact laws that are contrary to federal law. The laws that the states created were legal due to the absence of federal law, thanks to Trump’s repeal.

              • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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                5 months ago

                Those states and Individual healthcare providers are 100% going to ignore those laws. I live in a red state and we routinely flout federal law.

                And you can only really legislate against discrimination that people are stupid enough to document. They won’t say that they aren’t treating me because I’m trans, but because of some other reason. Just like the job that recently fired me and refused to pay me for ANY of the work I did, didn’t officially fire me because I’m trans :)