Fifteen states are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. New Rules This will amend the Affordable Care Act's ban on discrimination based on sex to include “gender identity.”

The policy would force medical providers to perform surgery and administer hormones to both children and adults for the purpose of gender reassignment, without taking into account medical guidance.

Additionally, health care providers must admit patients to gender-segregated spaces, such as sections of hospitals reserved for patients with a gender-defined identity, rather than biological sex. Health care workers are required to use gender-affirming pronouns and are penalized for using biologically accurate pronouns.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announces his appointment Participated in the lawsuit To prevent new rules from coming into effect.

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“Despite repeated failures, the Biden Administration continues to enforce its unlawful mandate that health care providers perform gender reassignment surgeries or face severe penalties. The state of Alabama and our coalition partners will not tolerate this extreme and unconstitutional action,” Marshall said.

“In the medical field, the reality of biological sex matters. The need to protect vulnerable children from sex-reassignment surgery through sterilization matters.”

“Of all the Biden Administration's misguided efforts, its campaign to replace biological sex with radical gender identity theory is potentially the most harmful because it is so harmful and so untrue.”

Marshall said the new rules could have a major impact on Alabama, which currently restricts the provision of sex-reassignment surgery to minors and bans the use of public funds to pay for such procedures.

Covered entities found not to comply with the new mandates risk the loss of significant federal funding, including the loss of billions of dollars in state Medicaid funds designed to assist low-income individuals, and risk civil liability from civil lawsuits.

In 2016, President Obama Almost the same proposalIt was ultimately struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In addition to Alabama, the states of Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia also joined the lawsuit.

Austin Shipley is a staff writer for Yellow Hammer News. You can follow him on X. @ShipleyAusten