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underthesmellybridge 19 points ago +19 / -0

This is FAKE NEWS.

Yes, there's a new regulation just finalized by the Department of Health and Human Services. The regulation defines "sex discrimination" under Obamacare. The old regulation included gender identity in the definition of sex discrimination, while the new one does not.

Based on that change, major news media outlets are screaming: "Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump Administration." Here, for example, is a long NPR story on the change: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/868073068/transgender-health-protections-reversed-by-trump-administration

It's fake news.

It's fake news because the old rule was ruled unenforceable by multiple federal courts. It was, put simply, not a valid rule, and there were no protections to reverse.

The old rule was created in 2016 (while Obama was President), but before he left office a federal court issued a nationwide injunction against enforcing the rule on the basis that it changed the meaning of sex in the statute. A second federal court later agreed, and on October 15, 2019, the first federal court issued a final judgment, vacated and remanded the gender identity provisions as UNLAWFUL.

Because of that, the old rule was never enforced. As a matter of law it NEVER EXISTED.

Anyone who says the Trump administration rolled back protections for transgendered people is either lying or an idiot. Or both.

More details here: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/06/12/hhs-finalizes-rule-section-1557-protecting-civil-rights-healthcare.html

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bklyndamsel 8 points ago +8 / -0

Obama was a faggot. Lets make gay marriage federally legal. Let's let trannies in the army. On and don't forget, you can use whatever bathroom you feel comfortable with. What pisses me off more is that they use a black man to do all of this. If any of them met real black men, they would know they ain't down with this gay shit. To each his own but that shit don't rock where we from.

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amethystzephyr [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

If you had to pay for it, must be legit. 😜

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TheImpossible1 6 points ago +6 / -0

That's great, but can we remove sex discrimination, as women openly discriminate against men wherever they get power and it would be nice to be able to do something about it?

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amethystzephyr [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242

"Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death."

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Midwestknowsbest 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's hard to believe I live in a world where saying: 'men aren't women' is considered hate speech.

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amethystzephyr [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

How did all this come about so fast?. Much of this was flying under my radar.