Department of Health and Human Services

Doctors and EMTs could refuse to help transgender people if they claim it would “compromise their faith.”

The move comes during Pride month and on the anniversary of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub that left dozens of LGBTQ people dead.

The new rule would roll back Obama era protections that ban discrimination against transgender people at the worst time possible.

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.