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“This is a dangerous move,” Jirair Ratevosian, an associate research scientist at Yale University, told The Advocate.
The fight against barriers to health care must be part of the fight for equality.
Shanker, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive Americans, will work in the office of the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
Less than a week after affirming that his office does not discriminate in its employment practices based on an individual's "sexual orientation or gender identity," Sen. Rick Santorum rescinded his signature on a diversity statement.
