Department of Health and Human Services

LGBTQ organizations are taking the Trump administration to court because a “religious exemption” rule puts LGBTQ people at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been pushing “religious exemptions” that would allow healthcare workers to refuse to treat LGBTQ people and women.

The leading executive of the District of Columbia joined several other officials in writing a letter objecting to HHS’s ‘fundamentally wrong’ discrimination.

While multiple references to the LGBTQ community have disappeared, trans people are specifically being erased entirely.

The judge was shocked that Trump’s rule would allow ambulance drivers to dump a patient in the road for religious reasons. “Such harsh treatment would be blessed by the new rule.”

Pence said he “couldn’t be more proud” of the rule which protects adoption agencies’ “deeply held religious beliefs.”

The rule would have even allowed hospital receptionists to refuse to work with someone if it violated their sincerely held religious beliefs.

The judge said that the rule violated federal laws that ban discrimination and patient dumping.

The new rule stipulates that organizations receiving federal funds don’t have to recognize same-sex marriages either.

A high-level Trump administration lawyer has a long record of arrests for refusing to follow the law he’s now in charge of enforcing.