Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden administration over a new federal rule that he says would require states to pay for gender care procedures
President Joe Biden speaks for the first time since his son's conviction in a speech on gun safety at Everytown's Gun Sense University. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to the controversial Texas abortion law which bans abortions after 6 weeks. for transgender people through their Medicaid programs and require health care providers to perform them.
At issue is a new Biden administration rule regarding a section of the Affordable Care Act that pertains to nondiscrimination. The section particularly bans discrimination based on gender. But the Biden administration in March issued rules that said the protections apply to gender identity and sexual orientation.The administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, included specific protections for transgender people, including saying that providers can’t deny transition care that would be provided to other people for other purposes. It does, however, allow for some providers to make religious freedom claims.
Paxton has asked the federal court for injunctive relief, which would pause the rule from being implemented.The lawsuit drew immediate outrage from one LGBTQ rights group, Equality Texas, which said that transgender people have traditionally been denied care by Medicaid for care related to gender dysphoria. The Biden administration rule, the group estimated, would help tens of thousands of Texans.
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