A researcher concerned with policy that protects civil society says a proposed HHS rule change would directly involve American taxpayers in children’s sex-change treatments.
Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and family at The Heritage Foundation, tells AFN the Biden Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking to change President Obama’s Affordable Care Act Section 1557, which bars discrimination on the basis of sex.
“Under this new rule, sex will be redefined to include sexual orientation and gender identity,” Richards explains. “What that means is that the biological reality of male or female is now being transformed into this entirely internal and subjective sense that someone supposedly has of their gender identity.”
That means so-called gender-transition surgery and/or so-called gender-affirming care, even for minors, will now be required under certain conditions under the Affordable Care Act. Transgender activists often describe procedures for minors, including cross-sex hormones and gender-affirming surgery, as medically necessary.
The Daily Signal reports that Melanie Fontes Rainer, acting director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, also says that “discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination on the basis of pregnancy or related conditions, including ‘pregnancy termination.'”
Richards points out that someone will have to pay for those things.
“If you’re on the public plan, for instance under Medicare or Medicaid, it’s going to be the taxpayers that foot the bill,” he says. “Even for many of those who are on private insurance plans, it will still in part be taxpayers because your insurance premiums will go up because your insurance company is now compelled to cover gender-transition surgeries.”
Religious organizations like hospitals would be protected under another proposed rule change, but conscience rights of medical professionals would not.
HHS is currently taking public comments, and Richards says those are important because federal law requires that the agency heed them.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
“ seeking to change President Obama’s Affordable Care Act Section 1557, which bars discrimination on the basis of sex.”,,,,,,well if you slice and dice your born with sex off your body, you no longer have a sex and cannot be discriminated against. Psychologically or physically altered neutered people have no bases of being discriminated against. Government Taxpayers can actually save on medical costs. Your born with sex is your ticket to the free healthcare show. Tear up that ticket and you cannot enter the circus.
You can bet that they WILL STILL Push the “Sexual discrimination” angle though, especially in FAVOR Of whammen or “ITS”..
No it’s not medically necessary. The basis of sex is what you are born with…not what you want to be. Their DNA doesn’t change…so it’s basically cosmetic surgery.
If that’s the case I’d like a tummy tuck, lipo, a nose job, a face lift, and I’m really tired of sagging skin. Make them cover that too. Discrimination on the basis of AGE is just as important.
I identify as a 20 year old woman… not 70.
WIth how the left’s been pushing things for years, i wouldn’t be surprised if one day, they push for ALL ELECTIVE cosmetic surgeries, to be ‘funded by the tax payers’. ALL for ‘mental health reasons.’
““Under this new rule, sex will be redefined to include sexual orientation and gender identity,” Richards explains. “What that means is that the biological reality of male or female is now being transformed into this entirely internal and subjective sense that someone supposedly has of their gender identity.””
I am a White male. Can I identify as being a Black woman with 12 children and collect welfare, food stamps, free housing, free medical, dental, free phone, free internet, free cable TV, free designer clothing and join the NAACP??
Hellzzze No.
If you did not vote for biden. “you ain’t black”. Don’t believe me, just ask biden, he said it so must be true.
“Please give me my safe space, because I do not know what gender I am. Give me tinker toys that are painted pink and a Barbie doll with a pink dress and pink high heels. If you do not give me tinker toys and a barbie doll in pink, I will suffer from several severe “microaggressions”. I am a liberal, because I am “offended”. Please do not ever remove me from my safe space”.
Pity we can’t permanently seal them up IN Their ‘safe space’, and never let them out.
Their safe place is the God given gender they were born with, the very thing they remove in liberal insanity leaving them no real safe place, just a straightjacket of being a self-made freak.
The price tag associated with that change is astronomical.