West Virginia must provide gender-affirming care to its transgender residents through the state Medicaid program, a federal judge ruled this week.
the state was discriminating against transgender residents with low incomes
Two transgender West Virginia residents, Shauntae Anderson and Christopher Fain, sued the state over the policy in federal court. They were represented by Lambda Legal, a legal organization that focuses on LGBTQ issues. Chambers sided with that argument, ruling that transgender recipients of West Virginia’s Medicaid program were being treated unfairly under the policy.
The policy violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, as well as provisions within the Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid Act, the judge said.
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