A Mississippi district court struck down a rule that provided anti-discrimination protections to transgender patients in Medicaid.
The May 2024 rule redefined Title IX’s prohibition against discrimination “on the basis of sex” to include gender identity. This would have required state Medicaid programs, hospitals and healthcare providers to eliminate sex-segregated spaces and required providers to perform procedures for gender dysphoria paid for by the Medicaid programs.
Tennessee and Mississippi led a coalition of 15 states in a lawsuit against the rule.
In the Oct. 22 ruling, the judge determined that when Congress passed Title IX in 1972 “sex” referred to biological sex. The court’s decision eliminates the 2024 ruling.
