Court Permanently Blocks Biden Administration’s Transgender Mandate

A reprieve from the most depraved regime since Caligula……

As one commenter points out, “This mandate is from 2016 in the Obama ACA.
So it took 6+ years and countless harm to children and young adults for the courts fix this abhorrent mandate. This is an Obama-Biden sick perverse action.”

Court Permanently Blocks Biden Administration’s Transgender Mandate

By: The Epoch Times, December 10, 2022:

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A federal appeals court has permanently blocked the Biden administration’s bid to force doctors and insurers to perform or pay for gender-transition procedures even if they object on grounds of conscience and medical judgment, with the court basing its decision on constitutional protections of religious freedom.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit issued a unanimous ruling (pdf) on Dec. 9 blocking the controversial U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) transgender mandate.

Issued in 2016, the mandate interpreted the Affordable Care Act in a way that required doctors to perform gender-transition procedures on any patient, including children, even if the doctor was convinced the procedure could harm the patient.

Controversial Mandate

The mandate also required the vast majority of private insurance companies and many employers to cover the costs of gender-transition therapy or face penalties.

The HHS’s own panel of medical experts acknowledged that gender-transition procedures can be harmful and in many cases not medically justified, with HHS determining that Medicare and Medicaid should not be forced to cover such procedures.

Research has shown that gender-transition procedures carry significant risk for children, including loss of bone density, heart disease, and cancer.

‘Do No Harm’

Religious organizations and states sued to block the mandate, with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the North Dakota Attorney General’s office representing some of the groups.

“The federal government has no business forcing doctors to violate their consciences or perform controversial procedures that could permanently harm their patients,” Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, said in a statement.

“This is a common-sense ruling that protects patients, aligns with best medical practice, and ensures doctors can follow their Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no harm,’” he added.

Becket filed the lawsuit in 2016 on behalf of a coalition of Catholic hospitals, a Catholic university, and Catholic nuns who run health clinics for the poor.

A federal district court blocked the mandate from taking effect, leading the Biden administration to appeal the case to the 8th Circuit, which in its Dec. 8 ruling concluded that the lower court “correctly held that ‘intrusion upon the Catholic Plaintiff’s exercise of religion’” justified a permanent injunction.

The Biden administration has 90 days to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court or 45 days to ask the 8th Circuit court to rehear the case.

There was no immediate reaction from the White House to the ruling.

Goodrich said in a call with reporters that he doubts the “Biden administration will pursue either of these avenues.”

The case is Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Becerra, case No. 21-1890.

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From a Remote Location

1 year ago

Like all psychopaths with no humanity, no heart, no soul and no conscience, this regime will pull a surprise on this one. But I can guarantee you, those that favor turning kids into surgically-produced freaks and mutants for life, also support the barbaric Muslim practice of FGM on young girls. Didn’t the WHO advocate that be done to females all over the world, as well? In any event, this “surgery” ONLY benefits the “LGBTQ community,” as it serves to jack up their numbers and therefore inflate their political representation while simultaneously diluting, eroding, usurping, nullifying, negating and cancelling out the voting power of social conservatives, evangelicals, concerned parents, and other pro-family, pro-children, pro-morality, pro-decency and pro-modesty voices. There should be an organization devoted to stopping the transgenderization of this country as there already is with Stop the Islamization of America. Clearly this judge knows that there was NOTHING in the Constitution about transgenderism – and realizes that no matter how hard they try to aggressively impose same, Greenwich Village/San Francisco/Fire Island/Key West “values” DO NOT and SHOULD NOT supersede Judeo-Christian values.

This also shows just how deep NAMBLA’s (and their various front groups’, proxies’, affiliates’, surrogates’, etc.) influence over the Biden regime is – and why in every which way, there should be a wholesale purge of ALL LGBTQ’s from EVERY position of power they hold ANYWHERE. The revelations of that so-called “gender-fluid” keeper of nuclear secrets is far too typical.

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BadNewsRDems

1 year ago

Reply to  From a Remote Location

“Like all psychopaths with no humanity, no heart, no soul and no conscience”

THE WORD YOU ARE LOOKING FOR TO DESCRIBE THESE KINDS OF PEOPLE IS………..

DEMONIC, literally DEMONICALLY POSSESSED.

A lot of people do not believe in such a thing, BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE SHOWING all the earmarks of EVIL DEMONS.

AMERICA IS IN A SPIRITUAL BATTLE FOR HER SOUL.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Botched operations which are happening now, the inability to have children, and suicides will be one of the outcomes of transgender surgery. Once someone changes they cannot revert back.

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edward kennedy

1 year ago

Much of the trannie originations happen to elementary children in early grades where false suggestions are put in their heads by politically correct educated teachers.

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From a Remote Location

1 year ago

Reply to  edward kennedy

Proselytization, in other words. Converting them to ‘trans’. Exactly why all LGBTQ’s that hold any position of power, and all the alphabet groups, must be purged from our schools and kindergarten.

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ישועת ה' כהרף ע

1 year ago

סדום ועמורה
Sodom & Gomorrah
They want it to just like Sodom & Gomorrah……history repeats it’s self……deprived psychopaths

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BadNewsRDems

1 year ago

Reply to  ישועת ה' כהרף ע

AND JESUS CAST THE DEMONS INTO THE SWINE WHERE THEY THEN DROVE THEMSELVES INTO THE SEA. Matthew 8:28-34

HOMOSEXUALS, DEVIANTS, AND TRANNIES ARE INFLUENCED BY DEMONS.
That is as simple as it gets but nonetheless TRUE.

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Creole Gumbo

1 year ago

The government can’t force an MD to perform an operation that s/he is not competent to perform AND for which the doctor is liable! The same goes for medication. I do not see how the government can force a doctor to Rx a drug for which s/he is liable for injury to the patient as a result of that drug.

The bottom line to all of this is that the government has decided to practice medicine without a license. The only upside to it that maybe the doctors who are forced to do this and dumb enough to comply will be found not liable for medical malpractice.

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From a Remote Location

1 year ago

Reply to  Creole Gumbo

Worse, what the government is doing in this pushing of, and drive to spread, transgenderism constitutes an advocacy, endorsement, subsidizing and promotion of amoral, depraved, dysphoric behaviors, of which it is very much NOT their role or duty or business or job to do. One wonders what Roman historian Tacitus (who wrote about how government subsidy of poverty led to more poor people) would think of this.

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Roger Grant

1 year ago

We see gov’t mandated medical tyranny. (covid, in case you never heard of that).
It’s appearing in more places. Another part of the marxist attack.

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BadNewsRDems

1 year ago

They will just appeal it to the 9th and 10th Federal District Court and then on to SCOTUS to get the result these demonic people want. AND, they will win. WHY?

America has become demonically dark and depraved with delusion and self-importance and THIS IS WHY G-D HIMSELF WILL DESTROY AMERICA as she sinks further into becoming a 3-rd-WORLD COUNTRY AND NO LONGER MORAL. AMERICA is fast becoming a hell-hole of SODOM AND GOMORRAH.

AMERICA IS NO LONGER THE HOME OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE.
AMERICA IS NOW THE HOME OF THE ENSLAVED AND DEPRAVED.

America’s good, moral, and patriotic people NEED AND MUST come together and push these immoral people in the ocean.

Last edited 1 year ago by BadNewsRDems

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VTS

1 year ago

After story with the wuflu I am afraid to go to a doctor now.

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