The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit is hearing oral arguments Wednesday in a case challenging a Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that would force physicians to violate their sound medical judgment and/or their religious beliefs.
The HHS is acting on an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in January of 2021 for his administration to redefine “sex” in federal law to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”
That means the Biden administration has reinterpreted non-discrimination on the basis of sex in the Affordable Care Act to include gender identity. This radical reinterpretation would require physicians to prescribe or perform transgender interventions on patients, including children.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys, representing 3,000 doctors and medical professionals from the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), Catholic Medical Associates, and an OB-GYN doctor who specializes in caring for adolescents, appealed to the 6th Circuit after a lower court dismissed their case.
In the lawsuit, American College of Pediatricians v. Becerra, the physicians are challenging the HHS mandate requiring doctors to perform controversial, life-altering procedures and surgeries for individuals seeking to alter their bodies to match their new gender identity, including children, even if doing so violates the physician’s medical
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