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# Enforcement of anti-trans law blocked in the US
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/enforcement-of-anti-trans-law-blocked-in-the-us/
- Published: 2020-08-19T10:11:59.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-18T21:08:35.000Z
- Description: The Trump administration has been blocked from enforcing a law which strips protections for transgender people facing healthcare discrimination.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Health, News, Politics, Queer Corner, Donald Trump, LGBTQ, Trans healthcare, Trans Rights, Transgender, Trump administration

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/judge-block-600.jpg)

Judge Fredric Block, who ruled against the enforcement of the anti-trans law.

The **Trump administration** has been blocked from enforcing a law which strips protections for transgender people facing healthcare discrimination. US district court judge Fredric Block ruled that the regulation issued by the **Department of Health and Human Services** could not go into effect on **August 18** as planned. The legislation was blocked only one day before it would have been classed as law.

The law would have allowed for protection against healthcare discrimination on the ‘basis of sex’ but not on that of gender identity, thus excluding trans and gender non-conforming US citizens. Judge Block [suggested](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-idUSKCN25D2NN?ref=scenemag.co.uk) that the legal basis of this proposed legislation was questionable after the Supreme Court’s ruling in June which increased protection of LGBTQ+ people from federal discrimination.

A recent **UCLA school of law** [report](https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/transgender-covid-19-risk/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) that examined the vulnerabilities of trans adults to Covid-19 illustrated that healthcare accessibility for trans people during the pandemic is paramount as 300,000 trans adults in the US are immunocompromised and a further 450,000 could not afford to see a doctor in 2019.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/angry_trump_600-400.jpg)

The Trump Administration intended to reverse the 2016 **Obamacare** act that protected LGBTQ+ people experiencing healthcare discrimination, although Trump was challenged by two transgender representatives of the **Human Rights Campaign** group. During **Donald Trump’s** time as president, the rights of the US trans community have been eroded considerably, as in 2018 the Department of Health decreed a [rigid definition of gender](https://www.laprogressive.com/anti-trans-measures/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) as ‘unchangeable and determined by the genitals that a person is born with’.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/trans-rights-are-human-rights-600-400.jpg)