Legal Opinion
Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 2, 2020No. Civil Action No. 2020-1630Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 20-1630 (JEB) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION In an effort to improve access to health care for LGBTQ individuals, the Department of Health and Human Services in 2016 promulgated a Rule that offered a bevy of protections for such patients. Those included explicit prohibitions on discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sex stereotyping, limits on exemptions from providing treatment that certain religious…
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