Trump to let doctors refuse medical treatment to trans people
January 18, 2018
Washington D.C. news outlet Politico has reported on Trump’s latest plan to strip back LGBT+ anti-discrimination laws. The new law would allow medical professionals to refuse treatment based on religious beliefs. This would allow Christian doctors to turn away transgendered people and to even refuse abortions.
This comes following on the heels of Trump’s “Religious Freedom Day” and his solicitor’s supporting of the case of the baker refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
Alarmingly the civil rights division of the Health and Human Services department in the US is run by an avid Trump supported and noted detractor of LGBT+ rights, Roger Severino. Severino once stated that “on the basis of religious teachings, moral reasoning, scientific evidence, and medical experience, many have strong grounds to hold that one’s sex is an immutable characteristic.
“Many involved in providing medical care and those enrolled in health insurance plans have serious objections to participating in or paying for sex reassignment surgeries of gender transitions.”
Director of woman’s media Elizabeth Rend and director of LGBTQ media Lucas Acosta of the Democratic National Committee released a joint statement condemning the proposed law: “It wasn’t enough to try to strip transgender Americans of their right to serve, roll back access to birth control, and attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. Now Trump, Pence, and their Republican cronies want to allow health care workers to discriminate and rip away access to medical care.”
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