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May 11, 2021 (Family Research Council) — Xavier Becerra, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is wasting no time in pushing the radical Biden administration agenda. Yesterday, HHS announced that it will begin interpreting and enforcing both Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and Title IX’s prohibition of “sex discrimination” to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
During the Obama administration, HHS issued a regulation redefining sex along these same lines, but it was never implemented due to litigation. Then, during the Trump administration, HHS finalized a rule that maintained robust protection of civil rights, as well as a scientific understanding of the word “sex.”
The Trump-era rule was a great victory for science-based health care. If patients, including those who identify as transgender, are to receive appropriate care, medicine must be based in science. Here are a few examples of the poor patient care that results when science is not foundational to medicine:
A biological woman who identified as a man and was listed as a man on medical records was assessed for
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