Attorney General Alan Wilson supports overturning Biden-era rule on sex stereotypes

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – Attorney General Alan Wilson today joined a 10-state friend-of-the-court brief to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a challenge to a Biden-era DHHS rule regarding discrimination based on “sex stereotypes.”

The McComb Children’s Clinic alleges that the rule imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services that bans discrimination based on “sex stereotypes” overlaps with a “gender identity” provision that has already been vacated. These provisions require medical clinics that treat patients through federally funded programs like Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program to perform or facilitate body-altering “gender-transition” procedures and speak in support of gender-transition efforts.

“The previous administration pressed down many rules on citizens that were antithetical to biology and common sense,” Attorney General Wilson stated. “Healthcare for children and adults should be based on biological realities and not woke gender ideologies.”

McComb Children’s Clinic and similar providers who choose not to comply with this rule could face financial penalties and exclusion from treating patients paid through federally funded programs.

Joining Attorney General Wilson in the Missouri-led brief are the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, and Nebraska.

You can read the brief here.