North Carolina Asks High Court to Allow Plan’s Ban on Trans Care

An appeals court decision that barred a state health plan from excluding certain gender-affirming care from coverage was “seriously flawed,” North Carolina’s treasurer told the US Supreme Court.

It wrongly concluded that the exclusion violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, Dale Folwell (R) said in a petition asking the US Supreme Court to overturn the decision.

“North Carolina’s exclusion of coverage for sex-change treatments does not draw any classifications based on any protected trait,” Folwell said in the petition. Instead, it draws a line between medical treatments, and gender-affirming treatments “fall on the uncovered side” of that line, along ...