Texas

Another one word title that says it all.  It seems like the Lone Star state want to keep on poking us.

Texas leads suit against transgender health rules
The Star-Telegram
By Alexa Ura The Texas Tribune
August 24, 2016

Ramping up its resistance to the federal government’s anti-discrimination rules regarding transgender people, the Texas attorney general’s office filed suit Tuesday to block a federal regulation prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in some health programs.

Texas, on behalf of the Franciscan Alliance, a religious hospital network, and four other states say a federal regulation implemented last month would force doctors to perform gender transition procedures on children. The suit asks the court to block the federal government from enforcing the regulation.

The federal rule on nondiscrimination in health-care prohibits denying or limiting coverage for transgender people, including health services related to gender transition.

Translate… Hey our President Bush appointed judge is on our side; let’s see if we can go two for two.

The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, who on Monday sided with the state in a request for an injunction to block the Obama administration’s guidelines on accommodating transgender students in public schools. Those guidelines say that schools must treat a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex for the purposes of complying with federal nondiscrimination statutes.

Unfortunately I think they are.

Houston Press put it this way…

Texas Seeks to Allow Doctors Right to Refuse Treating Transgender Patients
By Meagan Flynn
August 24, 2016

The crusade against transgender rights in Texas — along with Attorney General Ken Paxton's race to break the record for most lawsuits filed against the federal government—is ripe and thriving.

While the lawsuit Texas filed against the feds for directing school districts to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identities makes its way through court, Paxton has got to work on a new anti-trans project, this time suing the feds for issuing a rule that prevents healthcare providers from discriminating against transgender patients.

Now, Paxton is pushing to give physicians the right to deny transgender people medical treatment — similar to the way he attempted to give cake bakers and even public officials the right to deny gay people service and rights.

This is not good news. These ruling by Judge O’Connor are having an impact on the lives of LGBT child and adults. People might die because of this. What they are doing is denying medically necessary treatment because of political reasons.

And I would like to point out that every single person who have sued to block proper health care and to block Title IX is a Republican.