Trump Erases Transgender Healthcare Protections During Pride Month

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'This rule opens a door for a medical provider to turn someone away for a Covid-19 test just because they happen to be transgender.”

"This rule opens a door for a medical provider to turn someone away for a Covid-19 test just because they happen to be transgender.”The Trump administration has erased transgender healthcare protections implemented by Obama.

Deputy executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, told the,"It’s really, really horrendous to not only gut nondiscrimination protections, but to gut nondiscrimination protections in the middle of a pandemic. This rule opens a door for a medical provider to turn someone away for a Covid-19 test just because they happen to be transgender.

 

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That man is pure EVIL 😈

The timing though.

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