Science deals a setback to Obamacare’s transgender rule

Published May 24, 2019 4:27pm ET



As hard as the social justice movement tries to erase the meaning of words as we all know them, we’re not quite there yet and the Trump administration’s reversal of an Obama-era rule on healthcare demonstrated that on Friday.

A new rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services undoes a previous one by the Obama administration, which essentially said that the terms “sex” and “gender” are interchangeable, even as liberals have pressed to make a distinction between the two for years.

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