An Obamacare clause that aimed to protect transgender people from discrimination will be repealed. At least that’s what the US Department of Health announced, according to a AFP dispatch taken over by Le Figaro.
In 2016, Barack Obama included in Obamacare a measure that made it possible to widen discrimination on the issue of sex, gender. It allowed you to define yourself by a personal feeling of being either a man or a woman, or neither or a mixture of the two.
Return to discrimination
Before this action against discrimination, a study was carried out by (in 2015) by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). It revealed that 23% of transgender people did not go to a doctor for fear of being poorly treated under the pretext of their identity.
With this change introduced by Donald Trump, this notion goes backwards and the question of sex will be limited to the “strict interpretation” of justice. This decision made the American LGBTQ associations react. Their fear? Poorer quality care for transgender people, and a return to legal discrimination. NCTE commented on this measure: “No one should be deprived of medical care, when their life and health are in danger, simply because of who they are.“.
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