Judge Smacks Down Biden Administration On Transgender Surgery

A federal judge has smacked down the Biden administration on a law that would force doctors who have a religious opposition to gender reassignment surgery to perform them.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s decision that said the Obamacare mandate that required religious doctors and hospitals to perform the surgeries would cause “irreparable harm” to the plaintiffs’ “exercise of religion,” The Blaze reported.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed an August opinion issued by the Fifth Circuit, which struck down an interpretation of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.

Section 1557 prevents federally-funded healthcare programs from discriminating against patients on the basis of sex.

“The mandate made no exception for providers who believe those procedures to be harmful or object to them on religious grounds, and it applied to all patients, including children,” Beckett said.

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