No???
Well
he’s the Judge that temporarily blocked an order that would allow a transgender
student to use the boys’ bathrooms during his senior year at a Virginia high
school. (The case is State of Texas v. U.S.A., 7:16-cv-00054, U.S. District
Court, Northern District of Texas, Wichita Falls). This legislation would have
it made safer for transgender students to use the bathroom of their choosing.
Well
O’Connor is back and believe it or not and even bigger sorry excuse of a human
being than last time
O’Connor
has brought the Obama administration to a halt again by stopping a legislation
that would strengthen transgender rights, this time over health rules that
could force doctors to violate their Hippocratic Oath on the grounds of
religious beliefs and refuse treatment to the transgender community. O’Connor
wasn’t finished there though.
This
block in legislation allows doctors to also refuse patients who had an
abortion, both under the illusion of ‘religious freedom’. O’Connor took the
ruling just one step further, stating that insurance companies are unfairly
burdened by having to add transgender individuals and women who have had
abortions to their plans. This doesn’t only set transgender rights back 60
years it also pushes woman’s rights back.
The
Affordable Care Act (Section 1557) currently protect patients against
discrimination in health care on the basis of race, colour, national origin,
sex (including gender identity), age or disability. As many federal courts and
agencies have determined, “sex discrimination” is still seen as a somewhat
unclear concept that can include gender stereotyping and gender-based
considerations. Whereas, Anti-trans discrimination is clearly gender
stereotyping, while discrimination against women who terminated a pregnancy is
rooted in stereotypes about maternity and female sexuality.
Essentially, people have got mad over the fact
that health care professional had to save the lives and protect the health of
people who just straight up don’t believe in the things they believe in.
O’Connor
just made a ruling means that doctors don’t actually have to do their job to
save a life if they don’t like how a patient looks or lives.
O’Connor’s
was clearly chosen as he has a history of transphobic rulings and it is clearly
the exact reason why he was asked to oversee the case in Texas. This is partly
verified by rumours that Congress has moved to repeal Obamacare/the Affordable
Care Act. Which means that healthcare in America just got more daunting for
some of its most marginalised and vulnerable people.
O’Connor’s
has essentially made it acceptable for doctors to remain uneducated and
ignorant of transgender health issues. He has also set back public opinion
about research into trans healthcare by a few years. If the ruling sticks a few
years will surely grow with every new doctor who refuses treatment of a trans
individual.
This
also means that doctors are allowed to refuse treatment of people who have
previously had an abortion. Given the impending repeal against Obamacare the
ACA will undoubtedly take money out of Planned Parenthood, healthcare for
people who can get pregnant in this country just got even more complex.
This
attack on healthcare and needs to stop, for fear that more and more lives
become compromised for the strangely argumentative reasoning of “religious
freedom.”
If you
believe that “religious freedom” is enough to costs someone else their life, a
mother, a father, a child, a family or friend.
Then I
hereby declare that it’s not religious freedom its legalised discrimination.
Well
he’s the Judge that temporarily blocked an order that would allow a transgender
student to use the boys’ bathrooms during his senior year at a Virginia high
school. (The case is State of Texas v. U.S.A., 7:16-cv-00054, U.S. District
Court, Northern District of Texas, Wichita Falls). This legislation would have
it made safer for transgender students to use the bathroom of their choosing.
Well
O’Connor is back and believe it or not and even bigger sorry excuse of a human
being than last time
O’Connor
has brought the Obama administration to a halt again by stopping a legislation
that would strengthen transgender rights, this time over health rules that
could force doctors to violate their Hippocratic Oath on the grounds of
religious beliefs and refuse treatment to the transgender community. O’Connor
wasn’t finished there though.
This
block in legislation allows doctors to also refuse patients who had an
abortion, both under the illusion of ‘religious freedom’. O’Connor took the
ruling just one step further, stating that insurance companies are unfairly
burdened by having to add transgender individuals and women who have had
abortions to their plans. This doesn’t only set transgender rights back 60
years it also pushes woman’s rights back.
The
Affordable Care Act (Section 1557) currently protect patients against
discrimination in health care on the basis of race, colour, national origin,
sex (including gender identity), age or disability. As many federal courts and
agencies have determined, “sex discrimination” is still seen as a somewhat
unclear concept that can include gender stereotyping and gender-based
considerations. Whereas, Anti-trans discrimination is clearly gender
stereotyping, while discrimination against women who terminated a pregnancy is
rooted in stereotypes about maternity and female sexuality.
Essentially, people have got mad over the fact
that health care professional had to save the lives and protect the health of
people who just straight up don’t believe in the things they believe in.
O’Connor
just made a ruling means that doctors don’t actually have to do their job to
save a life if they don’t like how a patient looks or lives.
O’Connor’s
was clearly chosen as he has a history of transphobic rulings and it is clearly
the exact reason why he was asked to oversee the case in Texas. This is partly
verified by rumours that Congress has moved to repeal Obamacare/the Affordable
Care Act. Which means that healthcare in America just got more daunting for
some of its most marginalised and vulnerable people.
O’Connor’s
has essentially made it acceptable for doctors to remain uneducated and
ignorant of transgender health issues. He has also set back public opinion
about research into trans healthcare by a few years. If the ruling sticks a few
years will surely grow with every new doctor who refuses treatment of a trans
individual.
This
also means that doctors are allowed to refuse treatment of people who have
previously had an abortion. Given the impending repeal against Obamacare the
ACA will undoubtedly take money out of Planned Parenthood, healthcare for
people who can get pregnant in this country just got even more complex.
This
attack on healthcare and needs to stop, for fear that more and more lives
become compromised for the strangely argumentative reasoning of “religious
freedom.”
If you
believe that “religious freedom” is enough to costs someone else their life, a
mother, a father, a child, a family or friend.
Then I
hereby declare that it’s not religious freedom its legalised discrimination.
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