Biden HHS Redefines Sex as Non-Biological

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[–][deleted] 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The Yahoo article glosses over the details. I'm sad that AP News is showing bias, but this article does dig a little deeper: https://apnews.com/article/health-care-transgender-sex-discrimination-77f297d88edb699322bf5de45a7ee4ff

Biden's administration is rolling back Trump administration orders to what they were in Obama days - insurers and medical care professionals may not discriminate against patient sexual orientation or gender identity.

Not discriminating again LGB and yes, even T, is a good thing! Everyone deserves access to healthcare and life-saving medicine.

But lets be real. This isn't about gay men or lesbians being denied open-heart surgery, or trans men or women being denied appendectomies or gall bladder removals. This is about insurers paying for puberty blockers for kids, oops, I mean adults. It's about cosmetic top/bottom surgeries for 16+, and doctors not being able to refuse because they did it for someone whose life depended on it.

This is setting the stage again for the Equality Act to actually pass in the US. They are trying to change "sex" into "gender identity" and legally punish people for refusing to acknowledge the lie.

[–]BEB[S] 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Did you get the sense that the person who wrote the title was a bit snarky? By which I mean the wording, "redefines sex as non-biological" seems to be a little deadpan.

So maybe that's a tiny step forward because most US journalists fall right in line with gender woo woo.

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd like to think there is a hint of snarkiness and maybe a little understanding of where we're coming from. I don't put hope into this though, it's just one person and the subtlety may have snuck past the editors.

in an effort to prevent “discrimination”

I noticed the quotes

sexual identity, rather than simply banning discrimination based on biological sex ...

"sexual identity, rather than" ... the wording feels deliberate

may decide to fight the disputes in court for a number of reasons, including to control cost via a medical necessity determination and to prevent controversial medical procedures from being performed in the state

"control cost via a medical necessity" and "controversial medical procedures"

I don't know who the journalist Caroline Downey is, but I think you're right that she probably gets it. If Yahoo as a tech-corporation jumps the shark and starts combating this, I will absolutely eat my words and start supporting them.

[–]BEB[S] 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I was shocked that Yahoo published this article because of the snark.

Maybe the editors are too up their own asses to see it, or maybe gender discourse has become so insane that even if sincere it sounds like snark.

There was a Reuters article recently that also seemed like the author was being snarky. I would hate to be a journalist right now and have to go along with the Flat Earthism of the Left AKA Genderology.

[–]motss-pb 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The article isn't entirely accurate. Biden didn't just do a rollback to Obama's interpretation of the Affordable Care Act. In Obama's Final Rule, gender identity was protected "on the basis of sex". But I think what most people don't realize is that LGB weren't protected against discrimination by this rule. "On the basis of sex" did not include sexual orientation. See graphic.

https://ibb.co/M187QZg

So, in 2016, nonbinary was explicitly protected by this rule; being gay or lesbian was not. The reason we were included this time around was due to the recent Supreme Court ruling of Bostock v. Clayton County (2020).

[–]INeedSomeTimeAsexual Ally 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can even fucking accept that gender identity exists as long as it doesn't replace the biological reality of being born a certain sex.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

AP News is showing bias, but this article does dig a little deeper

https://archive.ph/tGNq1