Thank you for using my image to illustrate the importance of this issue, @CommonDreams.
The combined nursing, medical, and allied health professions have already spoken – It is unethical to deny care to human beings based on their identity.
My generation of physicians saw how successful it was to do this in the last century (failure rate: 100%).
“This rule is an abuse of taxpayer dollars in the name of empowering hatred and bigotry towards society’s most vulnerable members.”