{"id":1077,"date":"2024-07-11T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2024-07-11T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:34:10","slug":"biden-admins-radical-mandate-forces-medical-providers-to-do-gender-transitions-red-state-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Biden admin’s ‘radical mandate’ forces medical providers to do gender transitions: Red state AG"},"content":{"rendered":"

:\u00a0<\/strong>Missouri Attorney General<\/a>\u00a0Andrew Bailey is suing the Biden administration over its new “radical mandate” that requires health care providers to perform transgender surgical procedures \u2013 including on children \u2013 while forcing states to pay for them.<\/p>\n

“Joe Biden is once again exceeding his legal authority in order to force his radical transgender ideology onto the American people. His Administration is threatening to hold federal funding hostage from any health care provider that refuses to perform or affirm harmful and irreversible transgender procedures,”\u00a0Bailey said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement first obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Bailey said he is filing suit alongside the American College of Pediatricians and the attorneys general of Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah to prevent “out-of-touch federal bureaucrats forcing Missouri health care providers into performing experimental\u00a0gender transition procedures,<\/a>” on taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

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The Biden administration’s new mandate requires health care providers to perform transgender surgical procedures \u2013 including on children \u2013 while forcing states to pay for them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“Doctors should not be compelled to harm children,”\u00a0the lawsuit\u00a0<\/a>states.<\/p>\n

In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated a rule in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that codifies nondiscrimination “on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs and activities.” The protection extends to health care programs or services that receive federal funding.<\/p>\n

The newly finalized Section 1557 also redefines “on the basis of sex” to include “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

“We clarify that a Nondiscrimination Policy\u2019s prohibition of sex discrimination encompasses protections afforded for various types of sex discrimination such as pregnancy, including termination of pregnancy or related conditions, and we have revised the parenthetical in \u00a7 92.8(b) to explain that this provision\u2019s reference to sex discrimination is consistent with the various types of sex discrimination described at \u00a7 92.101(a)(2), which includes \u2018gender identity,\u2019”\u00a0the rule states<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The newly finalized Section 1557 also redefines “on the basis of sex” to include “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The lawsuit alleges the rule “threatens to punish doctors and States who do not comply with the mandate by imposing huge financial penalties and excluding them from federally funded health care programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the\u00a0Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program<\/a>\u00a0(CHIP).”<\/p>\n

“This punishment would effectively preclude doctors and States from providing health care for the most vulnerable children in low-income communities,” the lawsuit reads.<\/p>\n

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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey looks on during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The new rule claims to enforce the ban on sex discrimination in ACA Section 1557, but neither that statute nor its precursor, Title IX of\u00a0the Education Amendments of 1972<\/a>, mandates gender-transition procedures, Bailey argues.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also argues the new rule violates the ACA and Administrative Procedure Act and undermines freedom of speech. Moreover, neither the rule nor the ACA provided clear notice or agreement from states and health care providers regarding funding or provision of gender-transition treatments through federal insurance programs.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit comes as more\u00a0conservative states<\/u><\/a>\u00a0are enacting laws that severely restrict both surgical and nonsurgical transgender procedures for minors. Additionally, states like Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Alabama and Florida have taken it a step further by making it a felony to give minors any gender-transition prescriptions or perform surgical procedures, such as sex changes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, several states have created “shield laws” that protect these procedures and gender-transition prescriptions for transgender people, including California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, New York, Vermont, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Illinois and Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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