In former President Barack Obama’s last year in office, the Health and Human Services Department launched a progressive parting shot that set off a storm of protests from medical professionals everywhere.

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, the administrative regulation popularly known as the transgender mandate, sought to change the longstanding and eminently rational definition of “discrimination on the basis of sex” to include perceived gender identity and abortion. Two federal courts promptly enjoined Section 1557, and President Trump’s Health and Human Services Department has now proposed a reversion to the status quo pre-Obama. This is a great relief. Physicians and nurses will no longer have to fear being accused of discrimination for refusing, for instance, to perform a late-term abortion or amputate the healthy reproductive organ of a patient suffering from gender dysphoria.