The democratt media is at it again.
Last week, practically in unison, countless major outlets reported that the Trump administration erased an Obama-era rule that protected transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals, and health insurance companies.
“The Trump administration finalized a rule to erase Obama-era protections for transgender patients facing discrimination in health care” is how the (failing) New York Times reported it on Twitter. MSNBC reported that the administration “finalized [their] rollback of protections against gender identity discrimination.” “Under the new Trump rule, a transgender person could, for example, be refused care for a checkup at a doctor’s office, explains one expert” claimed the hysterics over at NPR. The ACLU uncritically claimed that the Trump administration “issued a rule that will embolden health care discrimination against transgender people.”
I could quote hundreds more, but all reported the story more-or-less identically. And they’re all identically wrong.
As Kevin Ryan of Unbiased America explained:
Even the New York Times had to admit once you read past their headline that the repeal “does not have any immediate practical effects.”
Furthermore, as transgender commentator Blaire White writes:
It’s hard to tell if this is a case of fake news, or hysterical agenda-driven news. Perhaps both.