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LGBTQ Prime
A court temporarily stopped an anti-LGBTQ health care rule, but the fight is far from over
There’s no question that the Affordable Care Act has greatly benefited older LGBTQ Americans. AARP is helping to protect it.
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Politics
Senate Democrats urge Trump admin to stop easing discrimination rules during COVID pandemic
The changes suggest to health care providers and insurers that they can refuse to care for LGBTQ patients – including testing and treatment for COVID-19.
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Politics
The Trump administration is erasing transgender people from government websites
While multiple references to the LGBTQ community have disappeared, trans people are specifically being erased entirely.
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Health and Wellness
Judge vacates Trump’s rule that would allow doctors to discriminate against LGBTQ people
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.”
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Politics
Mike Pence praises new rule that allows adoption agencies to ban gay parents
Pence said he “couldn’t be more proud” of the rule which protects adoption agencies’ “deeply held religious beliefs.”
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News (USA)
Turns out health care providers aren’t turning away people for religious objections
That means the recent assertions by the Department of Health and Human Services are another Trump administration falsehood.
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Politics
Judge throws out Trump’s religious exemption rule that allowed doctors to discriminate
The judge said that the rule violated federal laws that ban discrimination and patient dumping.
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Health and Wellness
HHS Secretary Alex Azar is supposed to be fighting HIV but he’s befriending anti-LGBTQ hate groups
Trump pledged to eradicate HIV by 2030, but his Health Secretary’s political pals have different goals in mind.
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Politics
Trump administration civil rights lawyer arrested multiple times for harassing women & gays
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.
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News (USA)
The Trump Administration is cutting HIV/AIDS funds to pay for his war on immigrant kids
There has been an explosion of children detained by the government, and the money to house them has to come from somewhere.