#BREAKING: The Trump Administration just dropped final 1557 rule, moving to scrap comprehensive health care protections for LGBTQ people, disabled people, women, and other folks in need of reproductive health care.
Our lawyers are reviewing right now.
hhs.gov/about/news/202…
In the middle of a global pandemic, with our nation in uproar over a systemic devaluing of Black lives, this administration chose to prioritize a rule change attempting to roll back anti-discrimination protections in health care.
Despicable doesn't begin to describe it.
Make no mistake: The 1557 rule change serves no other purpose than to target and discriminate against LGBTQ people and other vulnerable patients.
The cruelty is the point. #ProtectTransHealth
Below comes directly from HHS.
THIS is why we spoke out re: JKR's recent transphobic statements.
Categorizing "sex" as exclusively defined by a limited and binary understanding of "biology" has real-world negative consequences for transgender people. #ProtectTransHealth
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