and on the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting. This truly awful rule was finalized by the Trump administration on Friday, and, per the , means that the "federal government no longer recognizes gender identity as an avenue for sex discrimination in healthcare." In other words, Trump just made it a whole lot easier for doctors, hospitals, and health insurance companies to discriminate against people who are transgender—including denying medical treatment.
Deputy executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen tells the that “It’s really, really horrendous to not only gut nondiscrimination protections, but to gut nondiscrimination protections in the middle of a pandemic.