In an “anti-discrimination” rule change, President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) redefined “sex” to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as opposed to the word’s biological definition.
The new guidance reverses Trump-era rules defining “sex” as grounded in one’s gender assigned at birth.
“It is the position of the Department of Health and Human Services that everyone – including LGBTQ people – should be able to access health care, free from discrimination or interference, period,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.
The changes aim to expand gender-reassignment surgery and hormone therapy on the taxpayer dime.
“Make no mistake: the policy announced by HHS today is not about ‘fix[ing] a broken bone or screen[ing] for cancer risk,” said Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project. “No American was being denied access to these treatments for identifying as ‘LGBTQ.’ Rather, this policy is really about forcing hospitals and medical professionals to adhere to leftist ideology regarding sexuality and gender – and in particular to provide sex-change procedures to all comers, including children.” --->READ MORE HERE
 |
| Alex Wong/Getty Images |
On Monday, the Biden administration’s Health and Human Services department, headed by Secretary Xavier Becerra, announced that the Office for Civil Rights would throw out the Trump administration’s view that sex is biological and “interpret and enforce Section 1557 (of the Affordable Care Act) and Title IX’s prohibitions on discrimination based on sex to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and discrimination on the basis of gender identity.”
The Biden administration rolled back the June 2020 final regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act by the Trump administration, which eliminated the general prohibition on discrimination based on gender identity and sex-stereotyping that the Obama administration had instituted.
The Trump administration wrote: --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories:
HHS Interpretation of ‘Discrimination Based on Sex’ Shows Urgency of Defeating Equality Act
Biden HHS Lays the Groundwork for the Chemical Castration of Children
Biden HHS Redefines Sex as Non-Biological in New ‘Anti-Discrimination’ Rule Change
US restores transgender health protections denied by Trump
If you like what you see, please "Like" us on Facebook either here or here. Please follow us on Twitter here.
No comments:
Post a Comment