WorthyNews:US: Christians Are Not Required To Provide Gender Transition Insurance Coverage, Federal Court Rules

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(Worthy News) – A federal court in North Carolina ruled Monday that Christian-led businesses cannot be forced to offer employee health insurance coverage that includes gender transition treatments and surgeries, Reuters reports.

In the case which was first filed in 2021, US District Judge Daniel Traynor in Bismarck ruled that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could not use sex discrimination legislation to make the plaintiffs, the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA), provide gender transition insurance.

As the US Affordable Care Act prohibits health insurance plans from discriminating based on “sexual orientation or gender,” the federal government argued that employer health insurance plans must cover gender transition treatments and surgeries, Reuters reports.

The CEA filed suit against the government, arguing that the EEOC and HHS interpretation of the law violates their First Amendment right to religious freedom by forcing them to participate in something their religion prohibits. The CEA’s bylaws assert that “male and female are immutable realities defined by biological sex” and “gender reassignment is contrary to Christian Values.”

Agreeing with the CEA, Judge Traynor ruled that the government’s position “substantially burdens a sincere religious exercise or belief.” He added that the government could seek to protect transgender employee rights in other ways such as by providing them tax credits or subsidies, Reuters reports.

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[FJK]

It's time to divide the world into two categories:  Sane and Not Sane.

Requiring anyone to provide gender transition insurance coverage would fall into the Not Sane category IMO, where would you put it?

[NConly]

3 hours ago, WorthyNewsBot said:

Christian-led businesses cannot be forced to offer employee health insurance coverage that includes gender transition treatments and surgeries

if a person wants this it should not be covered by any insurance. Or a separate individual not group insurance.

[NConly]

2 hours ago, FJK said:

It's time to divide the world into two categories:  Sane and Not Sane.

Requiring anyone to provide gender transition insurance coverage would fall into the Not Sane category IMO, where would you put it?

Everyone in the group pays for what the insurance company decides it might spend, it is a shared cost across the board. kinda like paying county tax that goes to the school system those who have no kids have to pay to help the ones that have kids but get none of the advantages the husband gets.

[FJK]

11 hours ago, NConly said:

Everyone in the group pays for what the insurance company decides it might spend, it is a shared cost across the board. kinda like paying county tax that goes to the school system those who have no kids have to pay to help the ones that have kids but get none of the advantages the husband gets.

But which category would you put this -the gender transition requirement- in?

[NConly]

3 hours ago, FJK said:

But which category would you put this -the gender transition requirement- in?

mental illness is where it belongs . And transition should be paid by the one who wants it not other employees or the public