Why experts say Trump's budget bill strips health care from nearly all transgender people
The Republican-passed House bill goes beyond limiting access for Medicaid recipients.
May 23, 2025
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The Republican-passed House bill goes beyond limiting access for Medicaid recipients.
Shanker, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive Americans, will work in the office of the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services.
A new federal letter gives Republican-led states another road map to cut off gender-affirming care for minors.
Under the administration’s latest guidance, reporting a trans patient’s care may no longer violate HIPAA — and that’s exactly the problem, providers say.
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
Experts tell The Advocate that the document can't be taken seriously and is riddled in misinformation.
“We have all the tools to end HIV. It just makes me sad to see a lot of this infrastructure being systematically dismantled across the country," one advisor told The Advocate.
“This is a dangerous move,” Jirair Ratevosian, an associate research scientist at Yale University, told The Advocate.
Less than a week after affirming that his office does not discriminate in its employment practices based on an individual's "sexual orientation or gender identity," Sen. Rick Santorum rescinded his signature on a diversity statement.
The fight against barriers to health care must be part of the fight for equality.