Two transgender women of color who have faced bias and hostility in health care services are suing the Trump administration for refusing to back down from its rule allowing medical practitioners to engage in anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
The experiences of both women — Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker and Cecilia Gentili — are laid out in the 70-page complaint, which includes stories from Walker about being infected with HIV after having to share needles for hormone injections because they weren’t covered by insurance, and a mental health worker blaming Gentili’s addiction issues on being transgender.
The lawsuit, filed by the Human Rights Campaign and the D.C.-based national law firm BakerHostetler, is pending before the U.S.