Transgender People Face New Legal Fight After Supreme Court Victory
Though the Supreme Court embraced a broad definition of sex in June, the Department of Health and Human Services pressed ahead with changes that narrowed the definition of sex in the Affordable Care Act.
“To go to the hospital and be mistreated — it’s violence.”
— Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker, one of two transgender women who are suing the Trump administration
The New York Times
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta
September 3, 2020
About two months ago, the U.S. Supreme Court determined in a landmark ruling that protections in the Civil Rights Act against discrimination in the workplace “on the basis of sex” extend to gay and transgender people, too.
But just three days before that ruling, amid a raging pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services erased provisions in the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, about sex discrimination that included gender identity and defined sex as the biological male-female binary assigned at birth.
In other words, as the Supreme Court essentially broadened the definition of sex, the Trump administration had narrowed it.
That the two contradictory developments came so close to each other was most likely not a coincidence: The Department of Health and Human Services acknowledged in its published rules that the Supreme Court would soon make an important ruling in a pair of cases (Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga. and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) that could have an impact on its actions. But the agency went on to say that it “need not delay a rule based on speculation as to what the Supreme Court might say.”
So it will take court challenges after court challenges, that is how Trump works… delay after delay just like the taxes investigations against him.
That question [is the new HHS policy illegal] is at the heart of a lawsuit brought by two transgender women in New York — Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker, 57, and Cecilia Gentili, 48 — against the Department of Health and Human Services.
“The government failed to take into account the implications of the Supreme Court decision,” said Jason Starr, director of litigation at the Human Rights Campaign, a nonprofit that is representing both Ms. Walker and Ms. Gentili. “That makes this rule unlawful.”
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A federal judge has since temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new health regulations from going into effect.
Lets face it Trump thumbs his nose at the law, he feels himself above the law.
Our healthcare is not the only thing that the Trump administration is attacking.
RELEASE: The Trump Administration Is Targeting Transgender People Experiencing Homelessness
Date: September 3, 2020
American Progress
Washington, D.C. — For the past six months, millions of Americans have watched their financial standing deteriorate rapidly thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As a result, an unprecedented number of residents are facing housing instability.
It is in the midst of this impending housing crisis that the Trump administration is proposing a new set of federal rules designed to deny shelter for transgender people experiencing homelessness.
A recently proposed rule change from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) seeks to undermine the 2016 Equal Access Rule that was put in place by the Obama administration. The new proposal attempts to strip away protections against gender identity discrimination and would allow shelters to deny transgender people equal access to sex-segregated shelters by limiting shelter access based on assumptions of a person’s biological sex and not their gender identity.
The rule change is especially pernicious given that transgender people experience homelessness at a disproportionately high rate. Homelessness among transgender individuals has increased by 88 percent since 2016, and 63 percent of the transgender homeless population does not reside in a shelter or in transitional housing. A new nationally representative CAP survey found that 87 percent of transgender respondents reported it would be somewhat difficult, very difficult, or impossible to find an alternative shelter if they were refused.
I believe Trump’s attacks on us is personal. I believe his hatred of us began with trans women being allowed to participate in the
Miss Universe changes rules to include transgender women
Reuters
April 10, 2012
The Miss Universe pageant is changing its rules and will allow transgender women to take part in all of its competitions starting in 2013, the organization and gay rights group GLAAD said on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s decision follows a media outcry over the disqualification of Canadian contestant Jenna Talackova from the upcoming Miss Universe Canada contest because she was not a “naturally born female.”Talackova 23, who underwent gender reassignment surgery when she was 19, was reinstated to the Canadian competition last week by businessman Donald Trump, who owns the Miss Universe organization. Talackova has a Canadian passport, driver’s license and other documents that identify her as a woman
I believe that is what triggered us being on Trump’s “Shit List” it was an affront to Trump’s manhood when he walks through the backstage contestants dressing room there will be trans women in the room.
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