A new rule, proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services would ban discrimination against transgender folks when it comes to health insurance. This would be part of a broader rule on how to carry out the Affordable Care Act’s ban on sex discrimination:
Once final, the proposed regulation is likely to expand insurance coverage for gender transition, the Associated Press reports. It won’t require insurers to cover transition surgery, but it will make it harder to deny transgender people care related to their transition. Insurers already pay for things like hormone treatments and reconstructive surgery, but may deny coverage for those services if they are needed for a gender transition.
Just imagine, we could one day live in a world where LGBTQ people can get married without interference from the Kim Davises of the world, not be discriminated at his or her job because there are Workplace Discrimination laws, AND get health insurance. It’s like they would have the rights that all Americans should have!
Team Blackness also discussed a new billionaire candidate in the presidency race, no justice for yet another mentally ill black person who died suspiciously in prison, and all you could possibly want to know about Margaret Sanger.
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John M. Burt
Inch by inch, row by row….
benw
So a Christian employee of a health insurance provider will be FORCED to issue a policy to a transgender person and THEN approve treatment related to their transition, even if their faith disapproves? And just like that, the iron bootheel of Obama drives down a little harder on the necks of the faithful believers of the once-great nation of the U.S. of A. where freedom of religion used to mean something.
Cervantes
Someone ought to resurrect Increase Mather and let him loose on these tin-pot Savonarolas.
Roger Moore
That’s crazy talk. We all know that only Real Americans® deserve rights. Everyone else gets only what we let them have.
celticdragonchick
Rod Dreher at The American Conservative is having another screaming meltdown that transgendered people are violating his notions of nominalist order and therefore destroying the Western metaphysical teleology handed down from on high to Greek philosophers back in the fucking Bronze Age.
You can’t make this shit up. Dreher needs competent counseling.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@celticdragonchick:
Are those the same Greek philosophers who coined the word “Hermaphrodite” to try and explain what they were seeing in the real world, or a different set of Greek philosophers?
(Yes, I know intersex and transgender aren’t the same thing, but it takes a special kind of stupid to claim the Greeks were ignorant of the possibility when they coined the word we used for a few centuries.)
Baud
@celticdragonchick:
Life sucks, then you die. #80sbumperstickers
retr2327
Might be worth adding a thread on the NYPD assault on Blake, now that the video has been released (see TPM). It’s outrageous. And bear in mind, the cop thought he was arresting a suspect in identity theft — not exactly a violent crime or an imminent threat to public safety. Surely, that encounter could have begun (and should have) with a polite request to see some I.D.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
And they’re definitely the same Greeks who had military units composed entirely of homosexual couples and were familiar with Scythian women warriors who provided the basis for stories of Amazons- both things that cause modern conservatives to flip out.
PurpleGirl
@retr2327: Last night I heard the Police Commissioner say it was an “alleged something something” and I thought what reason would Mr. Blake have to concoct a story. A bunch of NYC cops roughed him up, standing outside a midtown hotel. The mind only sort of boggles.
Plantsmantx
@retr2327:
UPDATE:
The team of officers, looking for suspects in a credit card fraud ring, were relying on a courier who identified Mr. Blake as one of the buyers, the police said. The officers also had an Instagram photo of someone believed to be involved. That person, who Mr. Bratton said looked like Mr. Blake’s “twin brother,” turned out to have no role in the scheme.
nytimes.com/2015/09/11/nyregion/james-blake-new-york-police-officer.html?_r=0
sukabi
@Plantsmantx: maybe they should find out if maybe the courier had something to do with it
EBT
@Roger Moore:
Oh we aren’t ever going to have the full gaumont of rights. I can’t pee in half the states and in 31 I can be evicted for existing. Not to mention that just putting my erotic pictures on line I violate a bunch of community standards laws.