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Department of Health and Human Services is expected to roll out a division specifically to protect the moral and religious (as in, no need to point to specific religious doctrine) rights of individuals to object to say, performing an abortion, or treating a trans or gnc person, or assisting an openly gay patient lmao. I hate this country and also Christianity.

Cue LGBT people sitting for hours in emergency rooms because nobody in a particular region is morally okay with physically touching them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-creating-civil-rights-division-to-shield-health-workers-with-moral-or-religious-objections/2018/01/17/5663d1c0-fbe2-11e7-8f66-2df0b94bb98a_story.html

Also notable is Trump’s recent confirmation of the conservative, anti-abortion, very newly former Eli Lilly pharmaceutical executive Alex Nazar to the position of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Again, this is part of a pattern of the administration’s decisions to lean in the direction of so-called religious freedom over access to healthcare, especially for women and LGBT (especially trans, noting the CDC’s recent suggestion to employees writing for budgets not to use words like “fetus” and “transgender”) people.

When asked during his confirmation hearing in November whether he supports a Trump administration rule, currently blocked from implementation by federal courts, allowing insurers to not cover women’s health insurances due to moral or religious objections, he said,
“I do believe we have to balance of course a woman’s choice of insurance
that she would want with the conscience of employers and others.”
This came soon after the Trump HHS changed its strategic plan
to indicate that fetuses have personhood. Nazar wrote that he
supports this change, writing, “The mission of HHS is to enhance the
health and well-being of all Americans, and this includes the unborn.”

For reference that means the HHS’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) job now includes ensuring that this

is legal nationwide. As of my writing this, 4/25/2018, the Office of Civil Rights website makes no mention of “sexual orientation” or “gender identity” on its list of protected groups.