July 14, 2023
A crop of discrimination lawsuits challenging state-level gender-affirming care bans and health plan exclusions has quickly bounced up to federal circuit courts, raising the likelihood the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue with major potential impacts for patients and their health plans, attorneys say.
July 13, 2022
The Fourth Circuit consolidated two appeals filed by North Carolina officials and a state employee health plan that both seek to undo a lower court injunction blocking the state plan's exclusion on treatments related to gender dysphoria and gender transition based on a holding that it was discriminatory.