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A Washington trans teen and his family are suing Premera Blue Cross for refusing to cover his gender-affirming surgery.

The lawsuit seeks a change in policy plus monetary damages.

The Lefts Go-To legal expert Laurence Tribe gaslights America on the 303 Creative case.

(TALLAHASSEE, FL - June 21, 2023 ) Today, a U.S. District Court Judge struck down Floridas anti-transgender health care rule that denied the states transgender Medicaid beneficiaries coverage for evidence-based, widely accepted gender-affirming medical care. The ruling came in Dekker v. Weida, a federal lawsuit challenging the rule filed by Lambda Legal, Southern Legal Counsel, Florida Health Justice Project, the National Health Law Program, and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittma...

(Seattle, WA, June 27, 2023) - Today, Lambda Legal, Sirianni Youtz Spoonemore Hamburger PLLC, and QLaw Foundation of Washington filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of 15-year-old transgender adolescent A.B. and his parents challenging Premera Blue Cross arbitrary and categorical policy to deny coverage for gender-affirming chest surgery for patients under 18, regardless of the patients medical needs. Identified by his initials, A.B.s medical providers recommended gender-affirming ches...

(Jefferson City, MO, June 27, 2023) - Today, Lambda Legal, the MacArthur Justice Center and law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon sued the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC) on behalf of Jane Roe, a formerly incarcerated transgender woman living with HIV, who was put in solitary confinement for over six years between 2015 and 2021 while held at the Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC) due to an unconstitutional and discriminatory policy against people livin...

(Nashville, Tennessee - June 23, 2023) - Late yesterday, a federal court judge upheld Tennessees discriminatory anti-transgender birth certificate policy that will not allow transgender people to correct the gender marker on their Tennessee birth certificates, leaving them grappling with inconsistent government identity documents. Tennessee is one of only a handful of states left in the country that still categorically prohibit transgender people from correcting their birth certificates to accur...

The prison’s “arbitrary punishment and order for solitary confinement were based solely on Ms. Roe’s HIV status,” the lawsuit alleged.

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative-majority ruling letting certain businesses refuse to provide services for same-sex m...

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