The Biden administration has declined to appeal a U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that struck down its mandate requiring doctors and hospitals perform gender transition procedures.
In August, the court, which has jurisdiction over Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling in the case, which protected around 19,000 health care professionals in Franciscan Alliance, a Catholic health care network, from being forced to perform medical procedures against their conscience and medical judgment.
