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The Trump Administration s announcement last week that it would removefederal protections against health care discrimination for transgender patients hit Hyde Goltz hard.Goltz, a 39-year-old nonbinary transgender Minnesotan, remembers navigating the health care syste stanley cup m before those protections were adopted in 2016. It was the seven years saving up to be able to afford phalloplasty on insuranc stanley cup e. It was changing jobs so that I could get health insurance that would actually cover phalloplasty. It was the three months spent day after day after day on the phone, hours on hold each time, trying to get across to people, supervisors, to tell the stanley cup m, this is medically necessary, Goltz said. Goltz and others couldn t help but notice the timing of the federal government s decision, amid a global pandemic that has already cost more than 116,000 American lives, and four years to the day after dozens died in a massacre at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. Hyde Goltz CBS News It s unspeakable cruelty of the kind that I am having a difficult time fathoming. They must not see us as people at all, said Goltz, who is currently furloughed from their job at a funeral home. It s a population that tends already to have such poor experiences with healthcare workers who are not always trained in a large part to deal with trans and nonbinary folks needs. Iyjn Man and dog rescued after Hurricane Helene disables sailboat, Coast Guard video shows
WASHINGTON --A Defense Department review delivered to Congress on Tuesday concludes that senior leaders at the U.S. Central Command did not exaggerate the progress the U.S. was making in fighting Islamic State militants, two U.S. officials said. The long-awaited report from the Pentagonrsquo inspector general is not expected to satisfy intelligence analysts who complained that officials were improperly reworking intelligence assessments being prepared for President Barack Obama and other top policymakers to offer a rosier view of U.S. operations against ISIS. jordan CENTCOM officials accused of distorting ISIS reports 03:56 The probe began after at least one civilian analy af1 st for the Defense Intelligence Agency told authorities he had evidence that officials at the Florida-based Central Command, which overseas operations in the Middle East, were improperly reworking the conclusions of these assessments. A House GOP task force concluded in a report last year that there were persistent problems in 2014 and 2015 with the commandrsquo analysis of U.S. efforts to train Iraqi forces and fight ISIS in Iraq and salomon Syria. The several hundred-page classified report, however, did not provide evidence that there were intentional efforts to distort intelligence