Biden administration announces new policy to strengthen transgender healthcare protections

A rally in Washington, DC in support of the equal health and livelihood of trans people – 30 March 2013
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The Biden administration has proposed a new rule that would strengthen healthcare protections for LGBTQ people as well as those seeking reproductive health care services, including those who have had abortions.

The proposal is meant to bring Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability, in line with the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision that federal laws against workplace discrimination on the basis of sex also protect LGBTQ people.

The proposed rule would make health care discrimination against LGBTQ people a violation of federal law.

“We want to make sure that whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you live, however you wish to live your life, that you have access to the care that you need,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said during a media briefing.

Bacerra also alluded to the recent spate of anti-transgender laws

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