Joe Biden would choose science over his culture-warrior base, it is time to think again. Last week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and Assistant Secretary of Health Dr.
Rachel Levine announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will interpret "sex discrimination" prohibitions under Obamacare to include sexual orientation and gender identity.This policy attempts to undo a 2020 regulation I put in place as head of the HHS Office for Civil Rights under President Donald Trump.
That regulation restored "sex" to its original, and still common-sense, public meaning—namely, that sex is based on an immutable, biological, genetic, binary and objective understanding of male and female.