Christian employers do not have to cover gender transition, judge rules
A Christian business group and its members do not have to offer health insurance coverage to employees for gender transition treatments, a federal judge ruled.
A Christian business group and its members do not have to offer health insurance coverage to employees for gender transition treatments, a North Dakota federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor in Bismarck ruled that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cannot make the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) comply with rules requiring that coverage.
The ruling, which grants summary judgment to the CEA on key issues in the case, comes nearly two years after Traynor temporarily shielded the group against the rules while he heard the case.
“The court was on firm ground to stop the administration from enforcing these unlawful mandates that disrespect people of faith,” Matt Bowman of the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, a lawyer for the CEA, said in a statement.
The EEOC and HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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