Trump administration has been blocked from enforcing a law which strips protections for transgender people facing healthcare discrimination.
US district court judge Fredric Block ruled that the regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services could not go into effect on August 18 as planned.
The legislation was blocked only one day before it would have been classed as law.The law would have allowed for protection against healthcare discrimination on the ‘basis of sex’ but not on that of gender identity, thus excluding trans and gender non-conforming US citizens.
Judge Block suggested that the legal basis of this proposed legislation was questionable after the Supreme Court’s ruling in June which increased protection of.