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This change means that any insurer or physician receiving federal financial assistance must cover or provide sex reassignment surgeries and therapies on the grounds that refusal to do so would constitute discrimination based on sex.
Catholic organizations and medical professionals won’t be forced to perform gender-transition surgeries or provide insurance coverage for them.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Why we can be grateful for the U.S. bishops’ new document on gender identity.
Religious medical groups including Franciscan Alliance, Christian Medical and Dental Society, and Specialty Physicians of Illinois fought to stop the requirement from taking effect.
‘Catholic hospitals and health care workers should not be punished because of their religious convictions or clinical judgments. We urge H.H.S. to reconsider its misguided mandate.’
“The Biden administration’s radical push to redefine sex in federal law has widespread impact and specifically threatens female athletes," stated Ryan Bangert, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom.
The U.S. has an assortment of laws on what is legal for mental-health professionals with regards to counseling transgender patients, leaving some Catholic professionals at risk of punishment if they don’t support ‘gender transition.’
‘This was never about science or evidence to begin with, but about ideology …’
A district court judge granted permanent relief from the mandate to a Catholic hospital network and group of Christian medical professionals who argued that doctors should not be forced to provide gender-transitioning procedures against their beliefs.
A redefinition of sex discrimination in health care could have major repercussions.
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