Florida filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration Tuesday after it released a rule barring health care providers from discriminating based on “gender identity” or “sexual orientation.”
The Department of Health and Human Services released the rule on April 26 as a part of the Affordable Care Act and bans health care and insurance providers receiving federal funding from denying care because of a patient’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody of Florida announced that her office had filed a lawsuit against the department for attempting “to force Florida to violate its own law” barring doctors from performing sex-change procedures on minors, according to a press release.
“Florida passed a law to protect our children from dangerous, irreversible gender-transition drugs and surgeries….
