In the reading and film for this week it discussed that The Department of Health and Human Services HHS has proposed a rule to legalize discrimination against trans people in health care, which would devastate the lives of trans people across the country by worsening access to healthcare. The 90-day comment period has ended, and HHS has collected over 70,000 messages from anyone who has wanted to weigh in. The National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender Law Center have also collected over 18,000 condemnations of the proposed rule, which illustrate how the passage of a rule to legalize discrimination against trans people in health care would devastate the lives of trans people across the country by worsening access to healthcare. The author is a 29-year-old non-binary person who is struggling to access healthcare services due to a chronic painful condition that affects her genitals. She has to choose between being treated poorly and not listened to or receiving some relief, and this new rule could potentially make her situation worse. All people deserve the right to promote their health and take care of themselves freely, and trans and gender non-conforming people will continue to exist even if the current administration wants to eliminate them.