In a significant victory for states\u2019 rights and the protection of individual liberties, a U.S. District Court in Texas has issued a nationwide stay on key provisions of the Biden administration\u2019s controversial Final Rule on Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities.<\/p>\n
The court\u2019s decision comes after the states of Texas and Montana challenged the rule, arguing that it overstepped constitutional boundaries and imposed undue burdens on states and healthcare providers.<\/p>\n
The Final Rule, issued on May 6, 2024, under the guise of preventing discrimination in healthcare, has been criticized for its broad interpretation of \u201cdiscrimination on the basis of sex,\u201d a term that the Biden administration sought to expand to include gender identity and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n
Critics argue that this interpretation effectively forces healthcare providers, including those with religious objections, to perform procedures or provide services that contradict their deeply held beliefs.<\/p>\n
On July 3, 2024, the court initially stayed the rule\u2019s implementation in Texas and Montana. However, following motions from both the plaintiffs and the defendants, the court has now extended this stay nationwide.<\/p>\n
The court found that the provisions of the rule challenged by Texas and Montana are likely unlawful as they apply to all participants, not just the plaintiffs in the case. As a result, the rule\u2019s effective date has been postponed for all healthcare providers across the country.<\/p>\n
According to the press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won a nationwide stay that blocks the Biden Administration from forcing federally-funded healthcare providers to conduct \u201cgender transition\u201d surgeries. Previously, Texas won a stay of agency action that blocked the rule from enforcement in the plaintiff States, Texas and Montana. Applying the same logic, Texas then argued for nationwide relief, and the court has expanded the relief to the entire country.<\/p>\n In May 2024, the Biden Administration promulgated a new rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act that would defund healthcare providers across the country who refuse to perform or pay for experimental, unproven, and potentially dangerous \u201cgender transition\u201d procedures.<\/p>\n Under the rule, any medical institution that refused to perform the procedures could be stripped of all federal healthcare funds, including federal Medicaid and Medicare dollars. The rule further claimed to preempt any state laws forbidding such procedures.<\/p>\n In June 2024, Texas and Montana sued the\u00a0U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (\u201cHHS\u201d), arguing that the rule was a plainly unconstitutional attempt to override state law. The rule also relied on a misapplication of the Affordable Care Act which never authorized HHS or any government agency to compel institutions to perform or pay for these procedures.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Biden and Harris sidestep the Constitution to force their unlawful, extremist agenda on the American public, we are fighting back and stopping them,\u201d said Attorney General Paxton.<\/p>\n \u201cBy blocking this destructive policy, which would have forced taxpayer-funded hospitals to conduct unproven and dangerous \u2018gender transition\u2019 procedures, Texas has delivered a major victory for Americans across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n Breaking: We have won a nationwide stay of a federal gender-identity mandate, blocking Biden from forcing taxpayer-funded hospitals to conduct \u201cgender transition\u201d surgeries.<\/p>\n When Biden and Harris sidestep the Constitution to force their unlawful, extremist agenda on the American\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/zoa8TtKsxY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) August 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n You can read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Texas and Montana Score Major Win Against Biden Regime\u2019s Overreach \u2014 Taxpayer-Funded Hospitals Blocked from Conducting Gender Transition Surgeries<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a significant victory for states\u2019 rights and the protection of individual liberties, a U.S. District Court in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n