'Trump administration rolls back Obama-era transgender health care protections'

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'Trump administration rolls back Obama-era transgender health care protections'

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Of course... You know they consciously timed this for Pride, too...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html
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Re: 'Trump administration rolls back Obama-era transgender health care protections'

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Cruelty is the point.
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Re: 'Trump administration rolls back Obama-era transgender health care protections'

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The guidance was only implemented in 2016
The guidance was voided by the courts in 2019

so if gay people could get healthcare in 2015 and November 2019 - May 2020 then all this is just pointless hysterics.
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Re: 'Trump administration rolls back Obama-era transgender health care protections'

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Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 4:27 pm The guidance was only implemented in 2016
The guidance was voided by the courts in 2019

so if gay people could get healthcare in 2015 and November 2019 - May 2020 then all this is just pointless hysterics.
Hopefully. But now, any doc who would turn non-cishet folks away knows they CAN, so... I hope this IS pointless hysterics.
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