Health and Human Services Department removes website's language on sex discrimination
This isn't the first time the department has removed information about vulnerable groups.
CASEY QUINLAN JUL 20, 2018, 12:27 PM
The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services changed or removed information on its website about sex discrimination, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation.
The Office for Civil Rights altered this information on several webpages on Section 1557, part of the Affordable Care Act that relates to sex discrimination, between March and August 2017, according to the nonprofit focused on government transparency. Now, mentions of sex discrimination on the basis of gender identity, that relate to requirements for health services for transgender people, “sex stereotyping,” and termination of pregnancy are gone.
The National Women’s Law Center, which first noticed the removal of this language, filed FOIA requests to find out more about why it was removed. Advocates for legal protections for those facing discrimination based on gender, sexuality, or pregnancy are worried that the removal of this language is a sign of policy changes to come.
Religiously affiliated health care providers challenged the ACA’s anti-discrimination provision in 2016. That year, a Texas federal judge essentially stopped HHS from enforcing the gender identity and termination of pregnancy parts of that provision through an injunction. But the recent removal of the language is still notable. Some of the language HHS took out is related to areas that the injunction did not touch, such as sex stereotyping and sex discrimination that isn’t about gender identity. Despite the injunction, the law still exists and its meaning hasn’t changed but HHS still took out information from an FAQ about Section 1557, about how it prohibits discrimination against gender identity.
https://thinkprogress.org/health-department-removes-website-language-on-sex-discrimination-121e7cb580b6/
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