Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially adopted new regulations, allowing recipients of government HHS grants to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people on the grounds of ‘religious freedom’.
The regulations were proposed in November 2019, and were released on January 7 2020 in an 86-page document which reverses anti-discrimination rulings made under Obama’s presidency.
The regulations read: “It is a public policy requirement of HHS that no person otherwise eligible will be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination in the administration of HHS programs and services, to the extent doing so is prohibited by federal statute.” However, federal statute does not protect LGBTQ+.