Trump judge ends Biden’s LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections for health care

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas has ruled against the Biden administration’s health care protections for LGBTQ people.

President Joe Biden has been applying the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County – which made anti-LGBTQ discrimination illegal in the workplace – to other areas such as education and health care.

In Bostock, the Supreme Court found that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bans workplace discrimination “on the basis of sex,” applies to LGBTQ people because it is impossible to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity without taking sex into account.

Upon taking office, Biden signed two executive orders that said federal agencies should “fully implement” the decision by applying the reasoning that anti-LGBTQ discrimination inherently involves sex discrimination.

That led the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to announce it would apply Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act – which bans healthcare discrimination on the basis of sex – to LGBTQ people as well.

But U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has rejected that interpretation after…

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