All posts tagged "hhs"
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Seattle Children’s Investigated by HHS Over Trans Youth Care
The probe follows a Kennedy-issued declaration that threatens hospitals with loss of federal funding over gender-affirming care.
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HHS Moves to Cut Off Trans Youth Health Care
The Trump administration is proposing rules that would strip hospitals of federal funding for providing transition-related care to minors.
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Trump Administration Deadnames Rachel Levine on HHS Portrait
Critics say the shutdown-era name change was an unprecedented act of political retaliation against the former Assistant Secretary for Health.
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Judge to Trump’s HHS: Hands Off Trans-Inclusive Sex Ed
Judge Ann Aiken denounced the administration’s attempt to defund LGBTQ-inclusive programs as “arbitrary and capricious.”
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HHS Cancels $12 Million in Sex Ed Grants Over Gender Identity Inclusion
HHS cancels California’s $12M sex ed grant and warns 46 states to strip gender identity from curricula or risk losing federal funding.
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Trump is undoing ‘decades of progress’ on LGBTQ rights, bipartisan civil rights agency says
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights calls findings "devastating," says Trump has "blatantly and deliberately" targeted LGBTQ people
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Congressional Democrats continue calls for end to nation’s gay blood ban
Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a formal update on a review of policies regarding...
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Medicare ban on transition-related medical care overturned
A longstanding ban that prohibited Medicare from covering transition-related medical procedures for transgender Americans was struck down Friday by an independent panel within the Department...
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Health insurance access expanded to include married same-sex couples
Health insurance companies that offer coverage to opposite-sex spouses will not be allowed to deny coverage to same-sex spouses, the Obama administration announced Friday. In...
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WWH Secures Federal Recognition
Whitman-Walker Health, the nonprofit community health center specializing in HIV/AIDS and LGBT-sensitive health care, was recognized Nov. 8 as a Federally Qualified Health Center by...
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Congressional bloc pushes prompt end to nation’s gay blood ban
A bipartisan group of 86 members of Congress urged Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to accelerate the reevaluation of the nation’s...
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HHS Secretary Sebelius Remarks at HRC Event Violated Federal Law
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was found in violation of a federal law on Wednesday for comments she made at a Human Rights...
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Obamacare Protects Transgender People from Discrimination
A section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that protects against sexual discrimination will also apply to transgender people, according to a letter...
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HHS Commits Funds To End ADAP Waiting Lists
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the Obama administration will invest nearly $80 million in grants to increase access to...
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News Analysis: How the HHS Contraception Coverage Decision and Marriage Equality Are Related
Today, White House press secretary Jay Carney spent a significant amount of the White House press briefing defending the Health and Human Services Department’s decision...
