The Never Ending Battle

Alaska is now the battleground state where we are fighting the to ban trans healthcare.

Lawsuit challenges Alaska Medicaid transgender coverage

Alaska is one of 10 states across the U.S. with a Medicaid program that explicitly excludes transition-related coverage.
NBC News
By The Associated Press
October 2, 2020


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A lawsuit has challenged the legality of a rule in Alaska’s Medicaid program excluding transgender residents from coverage for transition-related health care.

The lawsuit arguing the exclusion is a civil rights violation names as defendants the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services and department Commissioner Adam Crum, The Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday.

Alaska is one of 10 states with a Medicaid program explicitly excluding the transition-related coverage.

The lawsuit describes plaintiffs Swan Being, Robin Black and Austin Reed seeking care and being told Alaska Medicaid would not cover their treatment.

The state offered…

Crum proposed a change to state Medicaid regulations in February to allow “non-surgical services related to gender reassignment.”

Attorneys for the plaintiffs said the rule change would be insufficient because the proposal continues to exclude surgical gender-confirming care from coverage.

Unfortunately, by the time this heads to the Supreme Court the conservatives will have a six to four majority and Trump’s latest nominee hates our guts and she will ignore the law and vote for her religious bias. According to New Now Next…

Barrett has given speeches for members of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an extremist organization designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s the same org that represented Jack Phillips, the bigoted owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, in his now-infamous LGBTQ discrimination Supreme Court case. Asked about ADF’s classification as a hate group, Barrett claimed the org was only opining on a matter of “public controversy.”

Unless she is somehow blocked for being appointed we are in deep doo-doo for the next generation, no five years or ten but rather twenty or thirty years.

In the past, Supreme Court justices were pick with a long history of being on the bench, they were usually in their fifties or sixties but the Trump administration has picked young judges with no experience on the bench. One Appeal court judge didn’t even try a case legal case and BuzzFeed writes…

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Washington lawyer Allison Rushing to a federal appeals court seat, making her President Donald Trump’s youngest judge to date, and the youngest federal judge in the country.
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Previous presidents have put judges on the bench in their thirties, but it’s rare for appeals court judges, who have the power to set legal precedents that can only be reversed by the US Supreme Court and are more frequently tapped midcareer. Rushing, who was born in 1982, could spend decades on the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

She was also recommended by Alliance Defending Freedom which is espousing criminalization of homosexuality and has been paid by them for speaking engagements. They also call homosexual  pedophiles.

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