Transgender Care Decision Undermines LGBTQ Rights, Advocates Say

A Texas federal judge’s decision striking down an LGBTQ anti-bias policy wrongly applied US Supreme Court precedent and will endanger people’s health, advocacy groups told the Fifth Circuit.

The groups, led by organizations like Public Justice and the American Cancer Society, joined the federal government in asking the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act doesn’t prohibit discrimination in health care on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Kacsmaryk, of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, held in November 2022 that ...