Judge Blocks HHS Rule Protecting Doctors Who Object to Transgender Surgery

[Michie]

In June 2020, the Trump administration finalized a rule removing the expansive definition of “sex” from section 1557 and requiring that non-discrimination protections be interpreted in line with First Amendment freedoms.


WASHINGTON — A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s rule protecting doctors’ right to object to abortion and transgender surgery, just one day before it was to have taken effect.

U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block issued a preliminary injunction Monday stopping the rule from being enforced until it receives a full court decision.

In issuing the injunction, Block pointed to the Supreme Court’s decision in June which ruled that employers cannot fire workers because of their sexual orientation or self-determined gender identity.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion for that decision that biological sex is one component of sexual orientation and gender identity, and these categories should therefore be included in sex-based discrimination rules.

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Judge Blocks HHS Rule Protecting Doctors Who Object to Transgender Surgery

 

[Running2win]

Glad I'm not a Doctor! Crazy you would have to be required to do operations you object to. And who would want to go under the knife of someone that was against either anyway???

 

[Wolseley]

Methinks that American jurisprudence is long overdue for a major overhaul. We need more judges who rule impartially by means of the Constitution, and fewer who are influenced by leftist social engineering.