HHS ... Protecting Civil Rights in Healthcare (official press release misleading title)

[Odoreida]

HHS Finalizes Rule on Section 1557 Protecting Civil Rights in Healthcare, Restoring the Rule of Law, and Relieving Americans of Billions in Excessive Costs
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/12/hhs-finalizes-rule-section-1557-protecting-civil-rights-healthcare.html

The relevant bit:

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In 2016, the previous administration issued a regulation implementing Section 1557 (the 2016 Rule) that redefined sex discrimination to include termination of pregnancy and gender identity, which it defined as “one’s internal sense of gender, which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female.”

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Under the final rule, HHS eliminates certain provisions of the 2016 Rule that exceeded the scope of the authority delegated by Congress in Section 1557. HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word “sex” as male or female and as determined by biology. The 2016 Rule declined to recognize sexual orientation as a protected category under the ACA, and HHS will leave that judgment undisturbed.

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Isn't this what our trans comrades would call "erasure"?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Fuckers.

I got raped on a psych ward because the hospital had some rule that my entire birth name had to be put on the board that listed your nurse for the day.

The monsters not only attempt to erase us but want to out us regardless of the harm it causes us.

I dispise republicans.Every single one of them.

[Odoreida]

2. Here is the same story reported by Reuters

U.S. health agency reverses Obamacare transgender protections
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-transgender/u-s-health-agency-reverses-obamacare-transgender-protections-idUSKBN23J37M

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule on Friday that would lift anti-discrimination protections under Obamacare for transgender people and women seeking abortions, drawing condemnation from Democratic lawmakers.

The rule reverses some provisions of the Affordable Care Act passed during President Barack Obama’s administration, also known as Obamacare, that extended civil rights protections in healthcare to cover areas including gender identity and the termination of a pregnancy.

LGBTQ rights groups, Democratic lawmakers and Democratic-controlled states have decried efforts under the administration of Republican President Donald Trump to erode protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer citizens. One group said it planned to sue the administration over the new rule.

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Bravo Reuters for no nonsense reporting.