The Hill: The Trump administration plans to get rid of a rule issued by President Obama that prevented health-care providers and insurers from discriminating against transgender people, The New York Times reported.
The Obama-era rule prohibited discrimination based on race, age, color, national origin, sex or disability for health programs that received federal funds, the Times reported.
Because most practicing physicians accept patients using Medicare or Medicaid, the rule widely applied to health-care providers across the U.S.
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