Federal judge... ends Biden-era health care discrimination protections

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Federal judge sides with Republican AGs & ends Biden-era health care discrimination protections

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/federal-judge-sides-with-republican-ags-ends-biden-era-health-care-discrimination-protections/ 🔗

Greg Owen (24 Oct 2025)

A federal judge in Mississippi on Wednesday struck down a Biden-era rule extending anti-discrimination healthcare protections to transgender people.

Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi – a George W. Bush appointee – ruled in favor of a coalition of 15 GOP-led states that sued to overturn the rule, the Hill reports.

The Biden administration's interpretation of sex-based discrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the list of protected characteristics in certain health programs and activities under the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) caused outcry on the right when implemented in 2024, causing them to sue so that health care providers wouldn't be obligated to treat LGBTQ+ people equally.

In his ruling, the judge explicitly states that discrimination against people based on their gender identity is now legal.

Guirola ruled based on an "originalist" interpretation of Title IX, stating that a statute "cannot be divorced from the circumstances existing at the time it was passed." The word "sex" is not defined in Title IX, Guiroloa wrote, so the court must interpret the term according to its meaning in or around 1972, when the statute was enacted. At that time, he said, "sex" was defined as the reproductive distinction between male and female.

[Susan ✅]

They need to start reviewing judges for biases and removing from the bench those that clearly show they are biased on religion, on conservative vs liberal, or a bias against LGBTQ or specifically trans issues).

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

  @Susan   @Jessica_Rose

The reply comment authored by Susan echos my own thoughts. 

Because of the many Federal judges with apparent biases and predisposition with
judicial rulings... it highlights another related matter: "Judge Shopping" ...which
seems to have become a big issue across the political spectrum.
 
Add to all that I stated above, it seems to my less-than-qualified legal mind
that Federal Judges seemingly sway too much power with their legal rulings in
locations far from their venue and not in their jurisdiction.
      e.g.  A Federal Judge in Portland, Oregon can make a ruling that affects
              and applies to a matter clear across the country in New York.

Just my opinion, that is all.
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Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

They need to start reviewing judges for biases and removing from the bench those that clearly show they are biased on religion, on conservative vs liberal, or a bias against LGBTQ or specifically trans issues).

[AlisonM]

It feels, to me, that we, the LGBTQA+ community, are less than human and not worthy of all of the rights that are afforded those that don't identify openly to our community.  We are human and how we define ourselves should not negate us from all rights afforded to citizens.

[Lori Dee ✅]

We are human and how we define ourselves should not negate us from all rights afforded to citizens.

I felt the same way in the Army. Here I was prepared to give my life to defend the rights established in the Constitution, but we had to abide by the military's Uniform Code of Military Justice, which does not give the same set of rights.

Just remember that a pendulum swings both ways. The farther it swings in one direction gives it the energy to swing further in the opposite direction when it changes course. I just want to live long enough to see it change.