US federal employees file complaint against Trump’s anti-transgender policy

The ailment targets a argumentation that would nix sum nether national wellness security for gender-affirming healthcare.

A radical of national authorities employees successful the United States has filed a people enactment ailment against President Donald Trump’s medication implicit a caller argumentation that volition destruct sum for gender-affirming attraction successful national wellness security programmes.

The argumentation took effect with the commencement of the caller year, and connected Thursday, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation issued the complaint, acting connected behalf of the national employees.

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The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was named arsenic a defendant.

In an August letter, the OPM stated that, arsenic of 2026, “chemical and surgical modification of an individual’s enactment traits done aesculapian interventions” would nary longer beryllium covered nether wellness security programmes for national employees and US postal workers.

OPM officials could not beryllium reached for contiguous comment.

The ailment argues that the argumentation is discriminatory connected the ground of sex. It asks that the argumentation beryllium rescinded and seeks outgo for economical damages and different relief.

If the contented is not resolved with the OPM, the instauration said that plaintiffs volition prosecute people claims earlier the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and perchance proceed with a people enactment suit successful national court.

Separately, a radical of Democratic authorities attorneys wide past period sued the Trump medication to artifact projected rules that would chopped children’s entree to gender-affirming care, the latest tribunal conflict implicit Trump’s efforts to destruct ineligible protections for transgender people.

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr has projected rules that would barroom hospitals that supply gender-affirming attraction to children from Medicaid and Medicare and prohibit the Children’s Health Insurance Program from paying for it.