August 24th, 2016
Five states, led by Texas, and several nonprofit medical groups, all of which are religiously affiliated, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Obama administration’s efforts to ensure health care coverage to transgender people under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
“On pain of significant financial liability, the [Health and Human Services Department’s] Regulation forces doctors to perform controversial and sometimes harmful medical procedures ostensibly designed to permanently change an individual’s sex—including the sex of children,” the complaint in the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit also contains claims challenging abortion-relation coverage protections in the same regulation, specifically highlighting the lack of a religious exemption in the regulation or underlying ACA provision.
The lawsuit was filed in Northern District of Texas, the same district where Texas filed its thirteen-state lawsuit seeking to block the Obama Administration’s interpretation of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to extend discrimination protections for transgender people under the law’s provisions based on sex. This latest lawsuit was assigned to Federal District Judge Reed O’Connor, the same judge who last week issued a preliminary injunction against the Administration’s Title IX efforts.
The four other states joining Texas are Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The lawsuit also is filed on behalf of several religiously-affiliated nonprofits, which are represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
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SharonB
August 24th, 2016
Actions like this are deconverting thousands. Probably tens of thousands.
I can no longer in good conscience defend American Christianity.
Honest men of faith in have known like Rev. Terry Lucarelli , and Rev John Turnbull are exceptions to what is increasingly becoming the rule.
But what does the exception say about the rule?
I wonder what the tipping point will be. I hope Trump doesn’t win, so I don’t have to find out.
Priya Lynn
August 24th, 2016
Èthe [Health and Human Services Department’s] Regulation forces doctors to perform controversial and sometimes harmful medical procedures ostensibly designed to permanently change an individual’s sex—including the sex of children,” the complaint in the lawsuit alleges.
An outrageous lie. Sex changes are a specialty that can’t be done by just any surgeon. Only people who want to do sex changes develop the expertise to do them. No one is being forced to do sex changes that does not want to do them. And no children are getting sex changes, they have to be at least 18 to do so.
SharonB
August 26th, 2016
Lying Christian Republican liars lie.
But, I repeat myself.
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