TheĀ Biden administration announcedĀ a new rule Friday expanding safeguards againstĀ potentialĀ discriminationĀ ofĀ gay and transgender Americans seeking medical care,Ā in a reversal of Trump-era limitations that nixed federal health protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Okay thatās good news but how does that relate to states that do have bans on gender affirming care like Texas? Does this give the hospital room to fight or something?
It overrules them. States cannot enact laws that are contrary to federal law. The laws that the states created were legal due to the absence of federal law, thanks to Trumpās repeal.
Those states and Individual healthcare providers are 100% going to ignore those laws. I live in a red state and we routinely flout federal law.
And you can only really legislate against discrimination that people are stupid enough to document. They wonāt say that they arenāt treating me because Iām trans, but because of some other reason. Just like the job that recently fired me and refused to pay me for ANY of the work I did, didnāt officially fire me because Iām trans :)
Bringing a case to court requires access to the financial means to hire a lawyer, or having a case egregious and documented enough to find a lawyer to work for you pro bono.
And you wonāt be able to sue at all if you die because they refuse you care (I guess your family can š¤·āāļø) - there have been multiple cases of transgender women dying because EMTs refused to treat.
Red states donāt operate by rule of law. Oklahoma had a police department recorded talking about how much they wanted to kill black folks last year, pretty much nothing happened.
Okay thatās good news but how does that relate to states that do have bans on gender affirming care like Texas? Does this give the hospital room to fight or something?
It overrules them. States cannot enact laws that are contrary to federal law. The laws that the states created were legal due to the absence of federal law, thanks to Trumpās repeal.
Those states and Individual healthcare providers are 100% going to ignore those laws. I live in a red state and we routinely flout federal law.
And you can only really legislate against discrimination that people are stupid enough to document. They wonāt say that they arenāt treating me because Iām trans, but because of some other reason. Just like the job that recently fired me and refused to pay me for ANY of the work I did, didnāt officially fire me because Iām trans :)
They will lose if a case is brought to court.
Bringing a case to court requires access to the financial means to hire a lawyer, or having a case egregious and documented enough to find a lawyer to work for you pro bono.
And you wonāt be able to sue at all if you die because they refuse you care (I guess your family can š¤·āāļø) - there have been multiple cases of transgender women dying because EMTs refused to treat.
Red states donāt operate by rule of law. Oklahoma had a police department recorded talking about how much they wanted to kill black folks last year, pretty much nothing happened.