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Trump taps contraception skeptic from anti-LGBTQ org to family planning post

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Teresa Manning has worked for both anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ organizations in the past.

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Trump taps anti-LGBTQ activist Roger Severino to lead HHS Civil Rights Office

Friday, March 24, 2017

The former Heritage Foundation staffer actively opposed the ACA's civil rights protections and has fought against transgender rights, marriage equality, and abortion access.

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Trump admin. deletes LGBTQ questions on yet another federal survey

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

The administration has also withdrawn from another planned survey evaluating the effectiveness of a homelessness project for LGBTQ youth.

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University of Arkansas drops transgender health coverage

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

University officials used an injunction blocking the regulation that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity as an excuse to end the employee benefits.

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Texas judge halts federal transgender health protections

Monday, January 2, 2017

Isn't the message being sent that trans people are unworthy of healthcare because of Jesus? Didn't he heal the sick?

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Rightwing pundit calls on Trump’s health secretary to end HIV/AIDS programs

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Linda Harvey wants incoming HHS head Tom Price to go after the CDC's HIV/AIDS strategy and start "dismantling" the "mythological gay identity."

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Antigay bigot and Obamacare foe is Trump’s leading choice for health secretary

Monday, November 21, 2016

Tom Price is a Georgia congressman and an M.D. who thinks being gay is a "lifestyle" and that LGBTQ rights are “a huge cost-driver.”

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Lawmakers call on HHS to end ban on blood donations from gay, bisexual men

Monday, December 15, 2014

Eighty congressional lawmakers sent a letter Monday to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell, calling for the Department to replace the FDA's lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men…

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Panel recommends ending lifetime ban on blood donations from gay men

Thursday, November 13, 2014

ARLINGTON, Va. -- A panel of doctors and blood donor advocates who advise the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services voted Thursday to recommend that the federal government end its lifetime ban on blood donations…

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Same-sex spouses to be recognized for Medicare eligibility, enrollment

Thursday, April 3, 2014

WASHINGTON -- The Obama Administration announced Thursday that same-sex spouses will be recognized in administering several aspects of the Medicare program, regardless of where the couple resides.

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