Thursday, March 22, 2018

National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund: Make sure you’re on record

By Meghan Maury, Policy Director, National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund

Imagine going to your doctor’s office for your annual check-up and before you even get into the exam room, you’re asked to leave. Your doctor will no longer accept you as a patient.

Why?

Because you’re gay. Or transgender. Or even a woman.

You search online for another doctor, but, in your local community, no healthcare professional will take you as a patient.

We all thought that this kind of discrimination ended years ago. But, if the Trump administration and its notoriously bigoted departments get their way, it could become your reality.

Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule that would allow healthcare providers to insert a giant religious and moral exemption into all of their healthcare programs.

In other words, healthcare professionals could deny care to LGBTQ people. All under the guise of “religious or moral” rights.

We can fight this rule. We just have to get enough people to tell HHS that the law is hurtful, discriminatory, and just plain wrong. Add your name and story to the comments here.

There are only a few more days left for comments. So please hurry!

Help us stop this “license to discriminate” in healthcare. Let HHS know that no one should be denied care for being who they are.