Deny Injunction in Transgender Bias Case, HHS, ACLU Urge Court

Christian medical providers and insurers should be denied a court order permanently blocking HHS from requiring them to provide or pay for gender transition-related care, because such enforcement is already prohibited, the agency and groups opposing the request told a federal court in Texas.

A declaratory judgment that vacated pertinent provisions of a 2016 rule clarifying that the Affordable Care Act’s Section 1557 forbids discrimination against transgender patients already bars the U.S. Health and Human Services Department from enforcing the rule against these plaintiffs, supplemental briefs filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas said.

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