A flood of public opposition helped stop one of the Trump administration’s most extreme attempts to force hospitals nationwide to abandon gender-affirming care for transgender young people, offering a rare and instructive victory against a federal government that has otherwise moved aggressively to dismantle trans rights.
The Department of Health and Human Services has abandoned a proposed rule that would have threatened hospitals with the loss of all Medicare and Medicaid funding if they continued to provide transition-related care to minors, NPR was first to report on Monday. The proposal, issued in December, never took effect.
Its collapse followed more than 30,000 public comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nearly 20,000 came from Human Rights Campaign members and supporters, according to the organization. Equality California said major medical groups, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Children’s Hospital Association, also urged the administration to withdraw the rule.
Now, if only we could get this result for ALL human rights issues.
Awesome!
Now make medicaid pay for affirming care for people again.
this kind of attention also needs to be directed at the class war, because the upper class of trans people can just afford the funds for fully private healthcare and don’t care so much about this issue.
Or, you know, end the shitty healthcare system.
Also, like, some upper class trans people do help other trans people with fees etc.
the shitty healthcare system is just a symptom of having a class divide where there is allowed to be an upper class that uses something (e.g. overpriced insurance) to steal from the lower class.
