The American Medical Association and 30 other medical groups oppose the move and warned the Trump administration that its plan would put LGBTQ patients at risk. (Photo: Shutterstock)
LGBTQ patients will likely have a tougher time of it in seeking treatment, in the wake of the Trump administration's repeal of protections put in place under the Obama administration.
A regulation that not only forbids discrimination based on sex but also specifically protected LGBTQ patients has been rewritten to eliminate the latter provisions, according to Politico.
Under the guise of making its regulations “more consistent” with those of other agencies, the Department of Health and Human Services released its proposed new regulations, Politico points out, “on a Friday before [a] holiday weekend,” and two days after the Department of Housing and Urban Development took a similar step in allowing federally funded homeless centers to deny services to transgender people.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
