""I write separately to acknowledge the ongoing cultural war in which this Court, like courts before us, has had to participate," Abudu said. "Our role is to ensure that, regardless of religious, political, or other ideologies, the law applies equally to all. The majority's decision, unfortunately, undermines that goal and sets us up for yet another episode in our Circuit's legal history where the majority just gets the outcome wrong, and the short- and long-term implications of its flawed decision cannot be ignored.""
""A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling that mandated gender-affirming care be covered by insurance, a decision that one judge says creates "lower-class citizenship" for transgender people. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Houston County sheriff's deputy Sgt. Anna Lange must go to trial to prove her employer discriminated against her by excluding coverage for gender transition under her employee health plan.""
""After everything I've been through, it's crushing to know I will have to continue to fight to get what a jury already said I was entitled to," Lange said in a statement. "This should never have happened to me, and it shouldn't happen to anyone else." Lange filed her lawsuit in 2019 after she was denied coverage despite providing evidence of her medical needs supported by experts."
A federal appeals court reversed a prior ruling that had required insurance coverage for gender-affirming care and ordered Sgt. Anna Lange to go to trial to prove employer discrimination under her employee health plan. Lange filed suit in 2019 after denial of coverage despite presenting expert-supported medical evidence. A district court ruled the denial violated federal civil rights law, and the 11th Circuit had previously affirmed that finding. Judge Nancy Abudu dissented, calling the majority's decision a denial of medically necessary care and warning it creates unequal citizenship for transgender employees.
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