Georgia Health Facility to Face Trial on Transgender Bias Claim

A transgender woman can proceed to trial in lawsuit alleging that a behavioral health-care facility discriminated against her in violation of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, a federal court said.

Samantha Jolley raised disputed questions of fact that must be decided by a jury, including whether the staff at Riverwoods Behavioral Health LLC deliberately discriminated against her by conducting an offensive strip search and by withholding care they allegedly would have provided to a cisgender person, the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia said Thursday.

Judge William M. Ray II previously rejected Riverwoods’ claim that ...