A federal judge has sided with Mississippi and 14 other states in a lawsuit that argued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) overstepped its boundaries in expanding gender identity protections under the Affordable Care Act.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, joined by Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, challenged a Biden-era policy by HHS that included “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” classifications as legally protected from unlawful sex discrimination. The attorneys general contended that this rule would have coerced healthcare providers into providing sex-change procedures for patients even if they objected to performing the procedure.

“The Biden administration attempted to import its radical theories on gender identity into ObamaCare, forc

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