Mother’s ACA Gender Dysphoria Discrimination Claim Survives Dismissal

Mealey's (May 16, 2022, 10:11 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A woman’s action alleging that her insurer violated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) by denying coverage for her son’s gender dysphoria treatments may proceed, but her civil rights claim fails based on the statute’s more narrow definition of sex, a federal judge in Missouri said in partially granting a motion to dismiss on April 25....