On Monday, August 17, a federal judge blocked a Trump administration rule that would remove protections for transgender people facing healthcare discrimination.
The new regulations were supposed to take effect on Aug. 18, reversing Obama-era Affordable Care Act regulations that said discrimination protections “on the basis of sex” should apply to transgender people.
After the Department of Health and Human Services finalized the regulations in June, the Supreme Court ruled that federal nondiscrimination protections “because of sex” include gay and transgender employees. In their ruling, this kind of discrimination “has always been prohibited by Title VII’s plain terms,” and that “that should be the end of the analysis.”
New York-based U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block said the Trump administration’s rule was now in question after the Supreme Court’s major ruling.
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