ACA, UCL Claims Against Health Care Provider Survive In Transgender Case

Mealey's (October 2, 2017, 2:34 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — Allegations that an emergency health care provider touted its compassion toward those with gender dysphoria and then repeatedly referred to a transgender boy as female support his mother’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and California unfair competition law claims, a federal judge in California held Sept. 27 (Katharine Prescott, et al. v. Rady Children’s Hospital – San Diego, No. 16-2408, S.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 160259)....