The Biden Administration is restoring protections that ensure transgender patients can access health care.
Here’s what that means.
It is an example of the executive branch doing its job.
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Mara Keisling is the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equity.
This is the baseline of what a presidential administration should do.
It is an administration.
Mara Keisling is the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equity.
Congress makes the laws and the president administers it, says Keisling.
The Biden administration is saying they will enforce the laws.
Fear of discrimination can lead individuals to forgo care, which can have serious negative health consequences.
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Section 1557 covers healthcare as people think of healthcare, like going to the doctor.
But it also covers insurance.
Insurance companies havedenied coverage to trans people, even when the treatment has nothing to do with gender affirmation.
For example, a doctor diagnoses two people with uteruses with endometriosis.
And the doctor will say, No, its because he has those parts.
And the insurance company says, Well, we have a prohibition against trans stuff.'
Upholding anti-discrimination laws in health care makes these instances illegal.
This announcement from the Biden administration comes weeks after theRepublican-led Arkansas legislature overrode a vetoby Republican Gov.
Asa Hutchinson and passed a bill banninggender-affirming treatmentsfor transgender minors in the state.
Similar legislation has beenintroduced in 19 other states.
This is kids whose parents are doing the best they can with a unexpected context, says Keisling.
The idiots in the Arkansas legislature who did this probably think theyre sticking it to the liberals in Washington.
They are hurting young Arkansans.
They are hurting Arkansas families.
Its just an absolute disgrace.
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