Issues@Hand

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August 2021 – On May 10, President Joe Biden’s administration restored an Obama-era policy (which former President Donald Trump had reversed) requiring hospitals to perform sex-change operations and offer other transgender medical services.

Chris Pandolfo of Blaze Media reported, “Hospitals, clinics, and other medical providers are once again subject to government sanctions if they deny sex-change surgeries, such as hysterectomies or hormone treatments to people who identify as transgender.”

Matt Bowman, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, said, “This action promotes dangerous procedures for minors; threatens to compel medical professionals to contradict their best medical judgment about what promotes patient health, and to violate their oath to ‘do no harm;’ and threatens to strip professionals of their ability to continue serving vulnerable populations.”

theblaze.com, 5/10/21