This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Protecting LGBTQ+ Health
Only one party has a specific plan for ensuring that LGBTQ+ Americans will have access to high quality, affordable healthcare with protection against bias and discrimination .. 1/10
#Democrats condemn the Trump Administration’s discriminatory actions against the LGBTQ+ community, 2/10
#DemPartyPlatform #LGBTQ #healthcare
#Democrats condemn the dangerous and unethical regulations allowing doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies to discriminate against patients based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. 3/10 #DemPartyPlatform #healthcare #LGBTQ
#Democrats will reverse this rulemaking and restore nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS in health insurance, including coverage of all medically necessary care for gender transition. 4/10 #DemPartyPlatform #LGBTQ #healthcare
#Democrats will also take action to guarantee that LGBTQ+ people and those living with HIV/AIDS have full access to needed health care and resources, 5/10
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#Democrats will require that federal health plans provide coverage for HIV/AIDS testing and treatment and HIV prevention medications like PrEP and PEP, gender confirmation surgery, and hormone therapy. 6/10 #DemPartyPlatform #HIV #LGBTQ #healthcare
#Democrats support increased community HIV prevention and testing programs which target Latino, Black, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Native American, and other at-risk communities to address the increases of HIV. 7/10 #DemPartyPlatform #LGBTQ #HIV #healthcare
#Democrats will recommit the federal government to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2025. 8/10 #DemPartyPlatform #hivcure #LGBTQ #healthcare
#Democrats are proud that the Obama-Biden Administration lifted the discriminatory lifetime ban on blood donation by healthy gay and bisexual Americans. 9/10 #DemPartyPlatform #LGBTQ #blooddonation #healthcare
#Democrats will work to ensure blood donation regulations are based on science,not fiction or stigma and that no American, when seeking to donate blood, will face more stringent limitations than any other simply because of who they are. 10/10 #DemPartyPlatform #LGBTQ #healthcare

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