Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (US)
The Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act recently passed both the United States House and Senate by insane margins (414 to 1 and 95 to 0, respectively), and is expected to be signed by President Bush. You can read more about the House and Senate GINA bills on Genome.gov, but the basic idea is to prevent discrimination in employment and health care and insurance based on genetic information.
My question, as soon as I heard about this bill, was whether it could be used to protect transgender and intersex individuals. Unfortunately, although the summary of the bill at Genome.gov does not specify and therefore I had a brief shining hope...the full text of the bill specifically excludes sex and age from the body of genetic information that would be protected under the law.
Which sucks. And my question now is why specifically exclude those two things? Does anyone have any reactions or insight?
My question, as soon as I heard about this bill, was whether it could be used to protect transgender and intersex individuals. Unfortunately, although the summary of the bill at Genome.gov does not specify and therefore I had a brief shining hope...the full text of the bill specifically excludes sex and age from the body of genetic information that would be protected under the law.
Which sucks. And my question now is why specifically exclude those two things? Does anyone have any reactions or insight?