Bush judge blocks Joe Biden’s new LGBTQ+ health care protections

A federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s new healthcare discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people, many aimed at trans people. The ruling could make it harder for trans people to get coverage for gender-affirming care.

Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduced a series of changes to Section 1557 (the nondiscrimination provision) of the Affordable Care Act to extend and strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ people under the argument that bans on discrimination on the basis of sex also ban anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination because it’s impossible to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people without taking sex into account. Though the changes were set to go into effect on Friday, the judge’s ruling blocks enforcing the protections.

District Judge Louis Guirola Jr., who was appointed by George W. Bush, issued the ruling on Wednesday. He wrote that allowing the protections would…

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