Attorney General Liz Murrill, along with a coalition of 15 other state attorneys general, secured a nationwide stay and preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s new regulations interpreting Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex or gender.
The preliminary injunction halts the Biden administration from enforcing a rule that would expand sex-based discrimination to include gender identity and other “sex characteristics.” Judge Louis Guirola of the Southern District of Mississippi issued the order Wednesday morning, applying the stay and preliminary injunction nationwide.
The new rule, which was set to take effect on Friday, would have required Louisiana doctors to comply with Biden’s gender-identity agenda or risk losing all federal funding. The states argued that HHS’s May 2024 Rule would compel plaintiffs to “use taxpayer funds to pay for unproven and costly gender-transition interventions through Medicaid and state health plans — even for children who may suffer irreversible harms.”
The court noted that interpreting the word “sex” to include gender identity would create contradictions and ambiguity within Title IX and other regulations.