Posted on 10/25/2025 10:32:37 AM PDT by CFW
A federal judge overturned a former Biden-era rule that protected transgender healthcare under anti-discrimination measures.
On Wednesday, Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled in favor of a coalition of 15 Republican-led states.
The complaint was filed regarding Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which the Biden administration interpreted to include provisions for transgender-identifying people to receive so-called “gender-affirming care.”
The provision added gender identity to Title IX’s definition of discrimination “on the basis of sex,” which previously included discrimination based on sex characteristics and reproductive function. This rule prevented covered healthcare institutions from denying health care services and insurance coverage for treatment relating to gender transitions.
The group sued over the matter, arguing that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “exceeded its authority by implementing regulations redefining sex discrimination and prohibiting gender identity discrimination.”
During President Donald Trump’s first term in office, his administration reversed the same rule made under President Barack Obama in 2016. Trump’s policy kept protections for race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability, but defined sex as “biological sex.”
This time around, Guirola ruled that a statute “cannot be divorced from the circumstances existing at the time it was passed.”
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“healthcare protections”. Really?
As an HR attorney, this is a good ruling. Under the Biden rule, we were occasionally confronted with claims that employment decisions were based on an employees desired gender identity. We have a couple of men who want to be women, and in a red state, many of our conservative employees were coming to me for advice because they refused to call the guys “her” or “she.” And one of the delusional guys came to me complaining because employees didn’t want their kids around him at company parties. This ruling will help clear that up. These guys are no longer in a protected class. Now, Trump’s EEOC needs to release new guidance on the issue.
I had no idea that this was included in the kenyans debacle and illegal bill. This should begin the demise of the scumbag doctors who profit off of the mentally ill gender dysphoric. What an absolute cluster ___k our government has become.
“These guys are no longer in a protected class.”
As it should be.
That’s a good thing. I’ve always been puzzled about “trans rights”. There should be equal human rights for us all. Non-specific with regard to any invented class or otherwise. Human rights.
Good. There should not be laws discriminating AGAINST normalcy in order to bend favors for those with mental conditions.
Thanks for confirming what it sounded like, this is a great ruling!
“Delusional” should never be a protected class ;-)
While this case involved only health care, the just ruling that Biden’s change of the meaning of “sex” to include mentally ill people was a violation of law. He went on and ruled that we must define “sex” by the common understanding of the meaning of “sex” in 1964 when the Civil Rights Act was passed. In fact, an interesting issue on that is when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being debated the term “sex” was added in a floor amendment and that portion was never debated. So the only interpretation of “sex” was what was understood in 1964. That is, there are two sexes. Male and female. Just as God made us. And remember, the democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. LBJ would never have gotten that law passed without Republicans.
So basically, Democrats shut down the government over their ability to force businesses and consumers to pay to neuter and spay white kids for the woke communist agenda? Part of the big replacement is gender sterilizing white kids and enlisting them in the communist revolutionary army as drones and worker bees
Sounds like a good originalist judge!
Yes it does.
Exactly.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
wonderful news
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