LGBTQ Protection Rollback Violates ACA, Supreme Court Precedent, Lawsuit Claims

(June 25, 2020, 2:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A rule rolling back health care protections for LGBTQ individuals violates the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibition on discrimination as well as recent precedent in Bostock v. Clayton Cty., Ga. finding that the definition of sex covers transgendered individuals, a host of providers and rights groups seeking injunctive and declaratory relief in a federal court in the District of Columbia say in a June 22 lawsuit (Whitman-Walker Clinic, et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, et al., No. 20-1630, D. D.C.)....

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