Supreme Court rules in Planned Parenthood Medicaid case
The case challenged South Carolina’s attempt to exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program.
June 26, 2025
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The case challenged South Carolina’s attempt to exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program.
Two trans Iowans had sued over the state's exclusion of such procedures.
West Virginia's Medicaid program and its state employee health plan both refuse to pay for gender-confirmation care.
The state is working on a proposed rule change to its Medicaid program that would bar trans people from having their gender-affirming care covered.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services falsely claims such care is not evidence-based.
Republicans are advancing a "cruel reconciliation bill," Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano says.
It would have terrible consequences for transgender Americans, impoverished LGBTQ+ people, and those living with HIV.
The nonpartisan arbiter of rules compliance rejected parts of the Republican so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Denial of the coverage "invidiously discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status," a federal judge wrote.
The budget also flies in the face of his pledge to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Failure to cover such care is unconstitutional, says a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Following a lawsuit, the red state begrudgingly changes its policy.
Transgender surgeries are life-saving for people suffering from gender dysphoria. That's why the ACLU of Minnesota is fighting to lift the state's ban on the use of Medicaid funds for them.
The law prevents Medicaid from paying for hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries for trans people, but not for cis people.
"Gender identity is real," Judge Robert Hinkle wrote in finding the ban violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
The bans for state employees and Medicaid recipients, respectively, are unconstitutional, the Fourth Circuit ruled.