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Lambda Legal Sues Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Over Anti-Transgender Policy
Lambda Legal ^ | NOVEMBER 23, 2020 | Lambda Legal (press release)

Posted on 11/28/2020 8:58:32 AM PST by Salman

Today, Lambda Legal and Sirianni Youtz Spoonemore Hamburger PLLC filed a federal lawsuit challenging Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois’s (“BCBSIL”) administration of a blanket exclusion of gender-affirming care in an employer-provided health insurance plan provided by Catholic Health Initiatives Franciscan. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Tacoma on behalf of a 15-year-old transgender boy, “C.P.,” and his parents, and argues the exclusion is in direct violation of the nondiscrimination provisions under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.

“My son needs the medical care that will allow him to live, be healthy, and to thrive. However, because he is transgender, I have to fight and jump through hoops for him to have access to the care that he needs, is legally entitled to and that he deserves,” said Pattie Pritchard, C.P.’s mother and the primary beneficiary on the employer-provided health benefit plan that BCBSIL administers. “This denial also sends a message to my son and all transgender people, that their health care needs aren’t real or they’re not worthy of care. I won’t accept that.”

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Short version: The "anti-transgender" policy is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois will not pay for the castration of a child even though his parents say he needs it to live.
So they are suing.

It's always about children isn't it?

Lambda Legal is a public interest legal outfit. As it might be an ACLU for "gay" stuff.

1 posted on 11/28/2020 8:58:32 AM PST by Salman
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Employees at the Black Mesa Research Facility are upsettingly upset.
Dr. Gordon Freeman was unavailable for comment.


2 posted on 11/28/2020 9:06:43 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Salman

The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington currently has 5 openings out of 7 seats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Western_District_of_Washington#Current_judges

I wonder why President Trump hasn’t filled them?


3 posted on 11/28/2020 9:09:43 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing." -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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To: Salman

Perverts. And that mom should have her kid removed.


4 posted on 11/28/2020 9:10:01 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Salman

How is Gender Reassignment and all the other medical care necessary, NOT an Elective Surgery and Procedures?? Which is almost NEVER COVERED by insurance.


5 posted on 11/28/2020 9:16:27 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: RandallFlagg

The Innsmouth Esoteric Order of Dagon sends its regards and support to the struggling family.


6 posted on 11/28/2020 9:18:45 AM PST by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
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To: Salman

This country cannot possible get more screwed up than it is now....oh wait, of course it can.


7 posted on 11/28/2020 9:24:07 AM PST by antidemoncrat (Biden's )
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To: Salman

The child needs a psychiatrist & the parents need to be stripped of their parental rights for not getting this child the mental help he needs to accept the reality that men are men & women are women.

We don’t cede half of Europe to people who believe they are Napoleon. We don’t allow a person who claims he is Elmer Fudd Millionaire live in a mansion & go on yacht simply because he claims he owns them.

This insanity has gone on long enough. This nonsense is in our faces in order to hide the fact that the elites in this country are selling out the middle-class to China on the cheap.


8 posted on 11/28/2020 9:26:55 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: Salman

The real question is why the parents aren’t arrested for child abuse for seeking the surgical mutilation of their child.


9 posted on 11/28/2020 9:28:10 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Salman

Can Hatred of Christians Lead to Support of Sexual Minorities?
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/03/50399/


10 posted on 11/28/2020 9:34:35 AM PST by tbw2
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To: Salman

Do a chromosome test, prove its gender and offer to pay the first 10 payments for psychiatric help.


11 posted on 11/28/2020 9:56:16 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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To: Salman

12 posted on 11/28/2020 10:07:42 AM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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>> gender-affirming care

Elective masochism — not covered.


13 posted on 11/28/2020 10:17:12 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Jim from C-Town
We don’t cede half of Europe to people who believe they are Napoleon.

While I agree with most of your post I disagree with this part. Think Islam.

14 posted on 11/28/2020 10:20:56 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

They think they are Mohamad, that’s different!


15 posted on 11/28/2020 10:32:27 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: Jim from C-Town

The phrase “transgender boy” means that this child is a girl, and therefor, the correct pronoun is “she.”


16 posted on 11/28/2020 10:39:29 AM PST by Lauren BaRecall (💗 "I never say anything I can't prove." - Sidney Powell)
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To: Salman
"“My son needs the medical care that will allow him to live, be healthy, and to thrive. However, because he is transgender, I have to fight and jump through hoops for him to have access to the care that he needs, is legally entitled to and that he deserves,” said Pattie Pritchard, C.P.’s mother and the primary beneficiary on the employer-provided health benefit plan that BCBSIL administers. “This denial also sends a message to my son and all transgender people, that their health care needs aren’t real or they’re not worthy of care. I won’t accept that.”

"Pattie Pritchard facilitates the Gender Diversity Family Support Groups in Kitsap county, WA. She and her husband live in Bremerton with their 3 kids, dog and cat. As a parent raising a trans son in a biracial family, Pattie has become a strong advocate for issues related to gender, diversity and equity, especially local to Kitsap County. For her day job, Pattie works with cancer patients as a licensed clinical social worker."

Just fire her. No job, no standing to sue.
17 posted on 11/28/2020 11:32:47 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: StAnDeliver
Hey, Peppermint Patty, Bobo says you're a burden to The Party.

""Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President Barack Obama told NPR that his promotion of the transgender ideology made it easier for Donald Trump to win the presidency."

18 posted on 11/28/2020 11:36:01 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: antidemoncrat

The country is full of evil people doing demonic / crazy things. What parent would entertain at the least and even worse promote permanent damage to their child over mass hysteria. Completely and totally evil / demonic.


19 posted on 11/28/2020 12:03:02 PM PST by wgmalabama (I will post less and thinking more from here on out. If this is Gods judgment, then so let it be. )
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To: Salman

An insurance policy is a contract. If a procedure isn’t covered in the contract, it ain’t gonna be paid. If mommy dearest wants her child mutilated, she has to pay for it.

I believe she needs a lobotomy more than the kid needs hormones.


20 posted on 11/28/2020 12:24:37 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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