The Biden administration announced it is overturning a Trump-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that excluded gender identity from sex discrimination protections in the Obamacare statute. The rule dealt with Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which made it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of “race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs and activities.” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said May 10 that the decision was made in light of a landmark Supreme Court ruling on an unrelated topic. The June 15, 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County–that employees can’t be fired from their jobs because of sexual orientation or gender identity—was a defeat for the Trump administration. During oral arguments in the case, then-Solicitor General Noel Francisco said, “Sex means whether you’re male or female, not whether you’re gay or straight.” Decision author Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the …