A demonstrator holds a transgender pride flag during a President's Day protest near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17, 2025. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Skrmetti’s office said the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi held that HHS "exceeded its authority when it issued a rule in May 2024 redefining Title IX’s prohibition against discrimination ‘on the basis of sex’ — which Congress incorporated into the ACA through Section 1557 — to include gender identity."
"HHS’s 2024 rule represented a disturbing federal intrusion into the States’ traditional authority to regulate healthcare and make decisions about their own Medicaid programs. Specifically, the rule would have prohibited healthcare facilities from maintaining sex-segregated spaces, required certain healthcare providers to administer unproven and risky procedures for gender dysphoria, and forced states to subsidize those experimental treatments through their Medicaid programs," it continued. "In vacating the rule, Judge Louis Guirola determined that when Congress passed Title IX in 1972, ‘sex’ meant biological sex and that federal agencies cannot unilaterally rewrite laws decades later to advance political agendas."
Then-President-elect Donald Trump shakes hands with then-President Joe Biden at Trump's inauguration in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)
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The judge vacated the rule universally, but the rule had already been prevented from going into effect. It has been stayed since July 2024, according to Bloomberg Law.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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