Roger Severino

Earlier this week it was announced that the HHS Office of Civil Rights would be restructured to serve as a “law enforcement agency” for the religious right.

HHS’s attacks on Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ rights follow the department’s increasingly religious right agenda.

Roger Severino has been attacking transgender rights for a decade. Now he can inflict the damage he’s dreamed of.

The healthcare of transgender Americans in a holding pattern – and may put many at risk once again for less affordable and less effective care.

The head of the HHS civil rights office wants providers to have the right to discriminate, and the CDC nominee has been affiliated with an antigay AIDS group.

And it’ll cost over $125 million every year after that.

The office is intended to give far right Christians a license to discriminate against LGBT people and pregnant women.

The President sent a note to the Log Cabin Republicans and within days the administration was repeatedly attacking LGBT rights again.

Even ambulance drivers could refuse to transport an LGBT person to the hospital if they cite their “religious freedom.”

Matt Baume offers a quick, queer debrief of the week’s news for the LGBTQ community.