A federal judge has restored Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections for gender-affirming care, striking down a Trump administration provision that would have pulled the treatment from the law's essential health benefits, the architecture that caps costs for every marketplace enrollee.
Senior US District Judge Nathaniel Gorton, appointed by Republican President George HW Bush, ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) overstepped its authority when it moved to exclude certain gender-affirming procedures from that protected list. The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued the decision on Friday.
