The Biden administration is challenging orders from two federal judges blocking enforcement of federal discrimination protections for transgender health care.
The Department of Justice, on behalf of Department of Health and Human Services, filed a notice of appeal Friday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, seeking to reverse a judge’s nationwide injunction on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.
The July order, which came in a lawsuit filed by Tennessee and more than a dozen other states, prevented the HHS from implementing the provision prohibiting health-care discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. ...