Department of Health and Human Services

The judge said that the Trump administration rule was “threatening the health of LGBTQ individuals at large.”

The Trump administration has repeatedly singled out transgender people for attack, but one of the most egregious has been blocked by a federal judge at the 11th hour.

The pro-discrimination rule means the Trump administration “demonstrated animus towards transgender persons, continuing a pervasive pattern.”

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.