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The Biden administration is reversing a rule initiated by former President Donald Trump that defined “sex” as biological, in an effort to prevent “discrimination” against transgender people in health care practices, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Monday.

The notice of enforcement, while not a binding federal rule, signals that the federal government will begin interpreting Section 1557 — the non-discrimination provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — to include a ban on discrimination based on sexual identity, rather than simply banning discrimination based on biological sex, as the Trump administration had. The change will likely require that states, which set their own Medicaid eligibility requirements, provide gender-reassignment surgery and hormone therapy to Medicaid recipients. . . .

Many private insurers, such as Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield, and managed care organizations, such as United Healthcare, already cover transition surgeries and hormone therapy, and have an incentive to comply with the Biden administration’s definition of discrimination in order to avoid expensive litigation.

Certain state governments, especially the Republican-dominated, may decide to fight the disputes in court for a number of reasons, including to control cost via a medical necessity determination and to prevent controversial medical procedures from being performed in the state.

Republican states could face lawsuits over the issue via two avenues: Medicaid claim denial and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission(EEOC) claim. . . .

For now, the notice allows exemptions for religiously-affiliated organizations to survive, in adherence to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and subsequent court rulings. This means hospitals and healthcare providers with religious objections will not be coerced to participate in transgender “transition” interventions by the Office of Civil Rights, the enforcement arm of HHS.

However, The Equality Act pending in the Senate, which President Biden has agreed to sign, poses an existential threat to the RFRA protection in matters of gender identity, sexual orientation, and abortion.

Soon after taking office, Biden signed Executive Order 13988, which tasked federal agencies with drafting plans to better enforce sexual orientation and gender identity rights by an April 30th deadline. . . .

What will this redefinition mean for our nation? Share your comments below!

(Excerpt from The National Review. Article by Caroline Downey. Photo Credit: The White House Flickr.)

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Susan CC
May 12, 2021

Define: from Old French defenir, definir “to finish, conclude, come to an end; bring to an end; define, determine with precision.” And more currently, a statement expressing the essential nature of something.

Father, the headline reads, “BIDEN REDEFINES SEX AS NON-BIOLOGICAL.” Who is this man who mocks You? Who is this man? I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well. You have made me, and Your breath Almighty God, gives me life. I pray You would reduce this effort to ashes. I pray any and all who would defy Your created order would be silenced. I pray Abba Father, those who continue on this wicked path would reap what they are attempting to sow, nothing. May all their fields be infertile. I ask this in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your final Word. Amen

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. Galatians 6:7
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139
The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4

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