Court ruling finds Affordable Care Act protects trans patients

By John Mack Freeman

A largely ignored portion of the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as “Obamacare”) allows for patients to address civil rights concerns related to healthcare to the Department of Health and Human Services. This week, a federal judge ruled in a case that these protections extend to trans patients, saying that patients may not be discriminated against based on gender identity.

From Advocate.com:

The ruling was handed down in a federal lawsuit known Rumble v. Fairview Health Services, filed in June by Minnesota’s Gender Justice on behalf of a young trans man who claimed his Minnesota hospital allegedly misgendered, ridiculed, gave “careless and assaultive” exams, and generally provided him substandard care because of his trans identity. His lawsuit states that he faced such treatment for six days after being admitted following an emergency room visit for genitourinary pain, according to NCTE.

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