SHRM August 10, 2022
A proposed regulation by the Biden administration would once again protect transgender and other LGBTQ workers seeking health care services from discrimination.
The proposed new rule would reverse a Trump-era regulation by restoring gender identity and sexual orientation as categories protected from discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability by entities that primarily provide health care and receive federal funding.
The news comes after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in May 2021 that its Office for Civil Rights will define sex discrimination after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which extended the federal civil rights...
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