Posted on 07/03/2024 7:45:33 PM PDT by CFW
A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule against discrimination on the basis of gender identity in health care.
U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola in Gulfport, Mississippi, sided with 15 Republican-led states that sued to challenge the rule, arguing that it exceeded the administration’s authority.
The rule was finalized in May and was set to take effect on Friday. It states that a federal prohibition on sex discrimination, part of the Affordable Care Act health insurance law, extends to discrimination against transgender people.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton
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🚨🚨HUGE WIN: Texas has defeated Biden’s attempt to require healthcare providers and States to perform and pay for “gender-transition” procedures under threat of losing federal funding.
The Court has stayed the Administration’s rule, noting Biden does not have the authority to require healthcare providers or States to perform or pay for these experimental procedures.
I have fought Biden’s “transgender” agenda every step of the way, and will continue to stand up for Texas against his illegal mandates.
Hooray !!
Chevron Uber Mortes!
What’s this really about? If you need health care you should not be denied it - especially if you’re insured - and it should not matter what you identify as. I suspect this has to do with ‘gender affirming care’ but the excerpt doesn’t explain.
Awesome. Keep going.
The law says “sex,” a biological term, not “gender identity.” The president does not get to change the law by fiat.
It deals with social opinion making up or identifying some new, questionable condition and then expecting the mainstream society at large to pay for their expensive medical procedures.
A good example is the current transgender fad. The medical regimen and procedures are horrendoudly expensive and they want my (and your) insurance compaany to pay for it by spreadiing these speaciality costs among everyone.
Let’s hope that it does apply to the bastardized practice of gender affirming care, especially for children.
There are very few extremely rare genetic disorders that can cause gender dysphoria; I know, my child is one of them.
Even people with these disorders typically cease being dysphoric once puberty passes, only a tiny fraction remain that way for life.
The amount of people claiming to be trans is statistically impossible.
There is no medical reason to transition a child.
For adults, it is an elective surgery. We should not have to pay for it.
Wait till they get to the changes made in the military!
Everything the Biden administration has done is the opposite of what should be done.
> The law says “sex,” a biological term, not “gender identity.” The president does not get to change the law by fiat.<
This!
EC
I am reminded of an old Sanford and Son show in which Fred goes to a dentist and demands a White Dentist as he was afraid a Black Dentist was a dentist based only on his color and not his ability. That show would be very offensive today. Never see it just like they never show any of the old Amos and Andy tv shows.
Thanks to God!!
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