Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
A judge has stopped the Trump administration from using its new interpretation of the Affordable Care Act to erase protections for LGBT+ people.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the roll back to protections for LGBTQ+ patients under the Affordable Care Act in June.
Barack Obama encouraged a broad definition on the rule against sex discrimination in the Affordable Care Act. Since his presidency, it included banning discrimination ‘on the basis of pregnancy, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, or recovery therefrom, childbirth or related medical conditions, sex stereotyping, or gender identity’.