Transgender Law: Health Care

8/26/22 A three-judge panel on the eighth circuit court of appeals ordered a federal judge’s preliminary injunction to stay in place to stop the state from enforcing the 2021 anti-trans law. The law prohibits medical professionals in the state from offering healthcare such as puberty blockers and hormone treatment to trans youth.

US Dist Ct for the Northern Dist. of Florida says that Florida's ban on gender affirming care, not surgeries, is unconstitutional.

Judge paused Trump’s restrictions on transgender women being incarcerated in women’s prisons and federal prisons providing gender-affirming medical treatment.

State health insurance plans must provide coverage for gender-affirming care in North Carolina and W. Va.

US Supreme Court says that named plaintiff's can still receive gender affirming care as they challenge Idaho's law banning such care. However, everyone else will have to follow the ban until the case is concluded.

11th Cir. Ct of Appeals held that held that Title VII prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The 11th Circuit found that there was no genuine dispute of fact or law that Houston County’s health plan coverage exclusion discriminated against people who are transgender.

The US Supreme Court has heard oral arguments on this 6th Cir case outlawing any gender affirming care for minors.

ACLU sponsoring suit against Ohio ban on gender affirming care for minors. The ACLU says HB 68 violates four sections of the Ohio Constitution — the single-subject rule, the Health Care provision, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Due Course of Law provision.

2/13/25 A federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order threatening the federal funding of hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to teenagers.

4th Cir. held on 8/16/22 that the ADA does not exclude gender dysphoria from its definition of disability.

2/7/25

Whitehouse.org 1/28/25

Prohibits discrimination in the provision of health care.

Nondiscrimination against transgendered people in health programs and activities. Effective 5/6/24

DeWine bans gender transition surgery for minors under 18.

Prohibits gender affirming care for minors, requires schools, state institutions of higher education, and private colleges to designate separate single-sex teams and sports for each sex.

The 10th Dist Ct of Appeals has partially overturned a ban on gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth, allowing doctors to continue prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy. The 10th District Court of Appeals has sent the case back to the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, arguing that the prescription ban “interferes with parent-appellants’ fundamental right to care for their children,” the decision states.

Says Ohio Medicaid does not cover gender transformation.

American Society of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Nov. 8. 2019

Ohio Capital Journal 9/23/22

CNN 6/19/21. It will take some time.

Edumed.org

Journal of Pediatrics 2018

Department of Labor makes clear that PrEP for HIV prevention is covered by insurance, as are the associated lab fees.

Transequality.org provides materials on how to get your health insurance to cover transition related care.

NPR 8/14/22

ColumbusRecoveryCenter.com in Columbus, Ohio

Military Times 9/17/21

World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Letter from Gov. Abbott to Texas Department of Family and Protective Services instructing them that gender affirming surgeries can be considered child abuse.

3/11 Preliminary injunction blocked the state from investigating parents who obtain gender-affirming medical care for their transgender children.

NBC News 4/16/24

The Independent, 5/21/24

NBC News 9/30/24

CBS News 6/19/24

NPR 10/25/22

CBS Baltimore 1/13/23

The Hill 1/13/23

Reuters 3/1/25