Fifth Circuit Won’t Rehear Doctors’ Challenge to Trans Care Rule

A full federal appeals court won’t rehear two Texas doctors’ challenge to a 2021 US notice that it intended enforce Obamacare’s anti-discrimination provision against medical professionals who refused to treat transgender people, it said.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered a lower court on Dec. 16 to dismiss the case, saying the physicians lacked standing to challenge the measure. One judge, however, withheld the court’s mandate—a procedural tool for sending a case back to a lower court for entry of judgment—signaling that the appeals court was considering en banc review. ...