Laurel Duggan
The Alliance Defending Freedom is suing the Biden administration on behalf of the Christian Employers Alliance for mandates which, it argues, force employers to pay for or perform gender transition surgeries, procedures, counseling and treatments in violation of their religious beliefs.
“By misinterpreting and improperly enforcing federal law, President Biden has far overreached his constitutional authority, to the detriment of people of faith across the country,” stated Matt Bowman, senior counsel of ADF. “The government cannot force Christian employers to pay for, or physically perform, harmful medical procedures that contradict their religious beliefs.”
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) coverage mandate forces employers that provide health insurance to employees to provide coverage of elective gender transition services, ADF argued in its brief filed Monday.
The ADF brief also argues the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gender identity mandate misinterprets “discrimination based on sex” in federal law in order to force providers to pay for and provide gender transition services against their religious beliefs.
ADF attorneys filed a separate suit challenging the HHS mandate in August, representing the American College of Pediatricians, the Catholic Medical Association, and an OB-GYN doctor. It argued that the law “would require doctors to perform gender transition procedures on any patient, including a child, if the procedure violates a doctor’s medical judgment or religious beliefs.”
“The Supreme Court has made clear that people have a right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sex and receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a May statement, according to NBC News..
“All people need access to healthcare services to fix a broken bone, protect their heart health, and screen for cancer risk,” said Dr. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health, NBC reported. “No one should be discriminated against when seeking medical services because of who they are.”
At least 16 states have taken measures to ban doctors from performing gender transition surgeries or hormonal treatments intended to block puberty for minors.
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No way should we as citizens have to pay for sex change operations! Nor should the government! If these people want to change their genders, that’s on them-NOT me! Hey! i want a face lift! Is the government going to pay for that?? I think not! They don’t even pay for necessary medical procedures, much less a sex change operation! This insanity has to stop!