WASHINGTON—The Trump administration proposed a new set of rules on Friday paring protections for transgender patients in health-care settings, part of a legal effort by the administration to more narrowly define the scope of sex discrimination. The new rules would end an Obama-era policy expanding an antidiscrimination provision in the Affordable Care Act to cover bias against people who identify with a gender other than the one listed on their birth certificate. The Obama-era rule, issued in 2016, was blocked by a federal...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 24, 2019 13:41 UTC