allows federally-funded social service providers to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.The members of Congress have signed onto a letter asking Acting HHS Secretary Norris Cochran to reverse the rule, which would allow various forms of discrimination, such as a taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agency refusing to place children with same-sex couples, an immigrant services center refusing to support an LGBTQ refugee or asylum seeker, or a federally-funded shelter using religious beliefs opposing homosexuality to justify turning away transgender individuals.The letter, led by U.S.