I’m Tired, Tired Of Reporting Bigotry

It seems like now a day whenever I search Google News or see an article on Facebook it is always bad news, there is very little good news.

UA transgender policy hits home
Worker presses system on health care as Texas case resumes
Arkansas Democrat  Gazette
By Jaime Adame
January 28, 2019

FAYETTEVILLE -- Two years ago, the University of Arkansas System halted employee health care plan coverage of hormone treatments and gender-reassignment surgeries for its transgender workers.

The decision meant Kacee Sparks, a mailroom worker and student on the Fayetteville campus, had to bear the cost when she began taking doctor-prescribed hormone treatments. Sparks, a transgender woman, called the treatments "a complete life changer," crediting them with lifting her from a deep depression.

"I would say that they're essential and absolutely necessary," Sparks said.

Now a federal court case in Texas is set to resume this year after a lengthy delay, the same case cited by the UA System in 2017 in its decision to drop coverage that had been offered for only a few months. The case in Texas involves a legal challenge to a 2016 federal rule applied to the nondiscrimination provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

On their website they originally said…

The department's website describes the rule as, in part, a prohibition "against discrimination on the basis of gender identity."

And now they don’t cover medically necessary treatment for us, it would seem to me that they are now discriminating against us. After all if they were covering us to prevent discrimination and now they are not covering us then by their own words it is discrimination.

"With that ruling (and with the ongoing challenges and modifications to the ACA) and considering the long-term plans-of-treatment involved in gender dysphoria, the University, on January 10, 2017, announced the decision to suspend gender dysphoria coverage pending the final legal outcome of the injunction or further clarification of the ACA coverage guidelines," Bobbitt wrote, noting the UA System's coverage extended through March 6, 2017.

Don’t count on the courts to rectify this, Trump and the Republicans have been packing the courts with anti-LGBT judges who put the Bible before the Constitution.

The Republican Senate blocked over 200 judicial appointments by President Obama and now they are stuffing the courts with judges some who have never sat on a bench. The judges have been recommended by the Family Research Council or by the Heritage Foundation a conservative think tank.