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Trump administration openly promotes healthcare discrimination towards transgender patients<\/b><\/p>\n

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New Health and Human Services department will grant religious and moral exemptions to healthcare providers who refuse to serve LGBTQ patients and other vulnerable communities<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK –\u00a0<\/strong> GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today denounced the Trump Administration for creating<\/a> a new Health and Human Services Office for Human Rights department for the sole purpose of\u00a0shielding healthcare workers who refuse to treat transgender patients, LGBTQ people, those living with HIV and AIDS, or those in need of abortion services in cases where they claim moral or religious objections to doing their job.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny healthcare worker who has moral objections to providing medically necessary care to an entire vulnerable population is in the wrong line of work,\u201d said Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD<\/strong>.\u00a0\u201cDenying a transgender person \u2013 or any person \u2013 life saving care if they walk into an emergency room is far from a moral act, it is unjust and dangerous. Trump, Pence, and Trump\u2019s appointees have tried time and again to establish blatantly bigoted policies that harm transgender and gender non-conforming Americans, and history will neither forget nor forgive this Administration\u2019s attacks on its own people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Transgender and gender non-conforming people already face massive barriers when it comes to accessing healthcare.\u00a0According to the National Center for Transgender Equality\u2019s U.S. Transgender Survey<\/a>, 19% of respondents reported being refused care became of their gender identity, and 28% were subjected to harassment in medical settings. This direct targeting of an already vulnerable community from the White House is part of a clear and dangerous pattern including revoking protections<\/a> for trans<\/a> students, the proposed<\/a> trans<\/a> military ban, and reportedly seeking to censor<\/a> the word \u201ctransgender\u201d from the Center of Disease Control budget documents.<\/p>\n

This directive comes from Roger Severino<\/a>, an anti-LGBTQ activist and former Heritage Foundation employee who Trump put in charge of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services. Severino is a defender<\/a> of the discredited practice of conversion therapy, argued<\/a> transgender service members \u201cdishonors\u201d the military, and insisted<\/a> that anti-LGBTQ discrimination is \u201cbased not on any sort of hatred but, in fact, out of love.\u201d<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Roger Severino\u2019s Anti-LGBTQ Record<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n