The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday proposed a rule that civil rights groups warn may be used to deny care to transgender patients.
Under the Obama administration, HHS determined that protections in the health care system against discrimination “on the basis of sex” should apply to transgender people.
The director of HHS’s Office for Civil Rights, Roger Severino, said the new rule rejects that interpretation and will bring the regulations in line with what lawmakers originally intended.
View the complete May 24 article by Ariana Eunjung Cha on The Washington Post website here.