Red States Challenge Biden’s Gender Dysphoria Disability Rule

A Texas-led state coalition is challenging a new US rule clarifying that gender dysphoria is protected under federal laws that prohibit discrimination against people who have disabilities.

Seventeen states sued US Secretary of Health and Services Xavier Becerra, saying that allowing transgender people to challenge programs that receive federal money “unlawfully changes the express terms” of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

This appears to be the first lawsuit challenging the new rule, which states that gender dysphoria “may be considered ...