The Biden administration announced a new rule Friday expanding safeguards against potential discrimination of gay and transgender Americans seeking medical care, in a reversal of Trump-era limitations that nixed federal health protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
That did not one bit of good for any trans people denied healthcare in the past 3 years, but at least the dignity of the office of president is intact. 🙄 Who knows, with this rule in place trans people might get four whole years of having the legal right to access nondiscriminatory medical care before a Republican gets elected or SCOTUS decides our right to exist is up to the states!
Is it better than nothing? Sure! Am I old enough to remember this song and dance with gay rights up until the early ‘10s and this literal exact thing happening right at the end of the Obama administration? Also yes!! Do not try to sell me on this executive order being bigger and stronger than it is.
All things being equal, Presidents usually try to work with Congress first, and then go around them second.
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That did not one bit of good for any trans people denied healthcare in the past 3 years, but at least the dignity of the office of president is intact. 🙄 Who knows, with this rule in place trans people might get four whole years of having the legal right to access nondiscriminatory medical care before a Republican gets elected or SCOTUS decides our right to exist is up to the states!
Is it better than nothing? Sure! Am I old enough to remember this song and dance with gay rights up until the early ‘10s and this literal exact thing happening right at the end of the Obama administration? Also yes!! Do not try to sell me on this executive order being bigger and stronger than it is.