LGBTQ advocates are challenging the Trump administration for its rollback of LGBTQ patient protections in court, Politico reports.
Advocacy groups including the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists as well as doctors and clinics, filed a lawsuit on Monday.
The lawsuit uses last week’s Supreme Court decision, which extends workplace legal protections to gay and transgender employees, as an argument that Trump’s rule to exempt transgender patients from Obamacare’s civil rights protections in health care should be invalidated, according to Politico.
"These exemptions invite individual health care providers, health care entities and insurers across the country to opt out of treating patients, including many transgender patients, if they believe doing so would compromise their faith," the lawsuit said.
The groups stated that the new Supreme Court ruling "forecloses HHS's attempts to deny the full protection" of Obamacare's civil rights provisions to LBGTQ patients in health care settings.
The Obama administration provided protections to LGBTQ patients for the first time under a nondiscrimination clause in the Affordable Care Act.
In 2016, a federal judge in Texas froze the policy nationwide. Last October, he blocked the transgender and abortion provisions completely.
That decision was put on hold in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, pending the Supreme Court's ruling on the workplace discrimination case, which was issued last Monday.
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