West Virginia Can Ban Taxpayer Funded ‘Sex Change Surgeries,’ Court Rules
4th Circuit Court of Appeals panel protects the right of states to not pay for scientifically dubious procedures.
West Virginia taxpayers cannot be forced to pay for so-called “sex change surgeries,” the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on March 10.
A three-judge panel upheld the state’s prohibition on Medicaid paying for the permanently damaging procedures for both gender-confused minors and adults.
The court found the prohibitions are not a form of sex discrimination and do not violate the Equal Protection Clause.
Rather, the state allows procedures only for specific medical reasons, which it is allowed to do. For example, someone who is gender-confused can receive a hysterectomy for uterine cancer under the state’s Medicaid program but cannot receive one as an alleged treatment for gender dysphoria.
“Every person—regardless of that person’s sex, gender identity, or combination thereof—will be covered when seeking that service for a qualifying diagnosis,” Judge Julius Richardson wrote in the case Anderson v. Crouch. “And no person—regardless of that person’s sex, gender identity, or combination thereof—will be covered when seeking that service for a diagnosis that’s not on the list, such as gender dysphoria.”
Two Supreme Court decisions from last term formed the basis for this ruling. The court relied on U.S. v. Skrmetti, which affirmed that states can prohibit drugs and surgeries meant to make gender-confused minors look like the opposite sex.
West Virginia’s case was also bolstered by another ruling last term, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. That ruling confirmed states generally have broad powers to determine coverage and providers in their own Medicaid plans, and made it difficult for individuals to challenge such decisions.
Legal scholar Ed Whelan praised the decision in a commentary for National Review, calling it “outstanding.”
In an outstanding opinion yesterday in Anderson v. Crouch, a Fourth Circuit panel ruled that West Virginia’s exclusion of “sex change” surgeries from its Medicaid coverage does not violate either the Equal Protection Clause or the Title IX standard incorporated into section 1557…
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) March 11, 2026
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey also thanked the court for its ruling.
“I’m grateful the court recognized West Virginia’s authority to set reasonable limits on taxpayer-funded healthcare,” Morrisey stated in a news release. “States have a responsibility to manage public programs responsibly, and today’s ruling is an important victory for common sense and the taxpayers of West Virginia.”
The governor said the ruling backs the state’s other efforts to protect female spaces from gender-confused men.
West Virginia is currently waiting on a ruling from the Supreme Court on whether it can prohibit boys from competing in girls’ sports.
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People who sterilize minors are guilty of crimes against humanity and should be executed expeditiously
Inside far too many doctors is a Mengele fighting to get out.
And on the outside of those doctors are often people not fighting back very hard.
boooo!!!
this goes to what I posted the other day:
Rather, the state allows procedures only for specific medical reasons, which it is allowed to do. For example, someone who is gender-confused can receive a hysterectomy for uterine cancer under the state’s Medicaid program but cannot receive one as an alleged treatment for gender dysphoria.
so they will just claim testicular cancer treatment/romals etc
Let those who believe in gender reassignment pay for it
they will…let them
its not the job for others to pay for others healthcare and/or lifestyle
correction:
dont know what / “romals” are
A spell-czeched “removal”?
was thinking it was something from the original star trek
We can’t evaluate this on a vacuum where the pressures and coercion of big pharma and its endless cash supply aren’t in the ring.
The challenges resisting these are almost infinite ♾️
“so they will just claim testicular cancer treatment”, which they can do BUUUUUT it will only be medically and professionally correct IF that is the sole reason for the treatment and can be backed up with a cancer diagnosis. IF they are only claiming its cancer but its really for mental health issues the person signing this off will be in for a world of pain.
whose gonna know??
they are all sympatico with each other
he11 that “dr” gosnell was actually murdering babies for god knows how long??
abortions labeled “mothers life in danger” is just another legalized catch all as is the bs of the hyde amendment
all meant to pacify the opposition and move on
we have seen it most recntly with dei
oh yeah,,we are getting rid of dei,,,you good with the doj!!??? great send the money
When the billing comes and there’s a handful of Docs castrating/sterilizing minor children.
All this insane/bogus Medicaid billing going on is probably coming to an end with better oversight. I’d be surprised if AI isn’t deployed to review the billing data and lo ate the clustered/suspicious billing. Just put a halt on the payout until human investigation triggered by the AI review is complete. If the facility/provider isn’t open, cooperative and transparent to clear up the inquiry then bar the payment, bar the Physician by Name and billing #, bar the facility operators/owners by name; have that in the pipe to be done with a phone call. Then go to the US Attorney to get a warrant to search, again with the US Attorney office prepped and ready to get a Judge to sign off and send over the warrant right then. Lock it down take everything, get additional warrants for the residences and other electronic devices. Serve them contemporaneous to the other warrant at the business address. Same for any business owned/operated by the same people. Easy.
True but when AI finds the “mistakes” and those results are tossed away like a
ballot for trump cica 2020
whose gonna know!!
OK bruh, you’re getting close to an OD on the black pill Doomer RX. If you really believe that things are that bad you should stop posting to eliminate your digital footprint, go down to your bunker and seal yourself in for a couple decades.
commo: re: march 13 2026 5:23pm
Im surprised you would fold over so easy as you suggest I should do
if you once again cant defeat the pov just say so or ignore
and if you think my post is not valid then you havent been paying attention to the news as there is a constant stream of crime that occurs and isnt found out for years and years and not to mention whistleblowers who bravely uncover and expose what others try to keep hush hush
There should be biopsy reports on the removed tissue that show if cancer was present. If it happens very often that no cancer is present then the Doctor should lose their license. It only takes one person to push back on fraudulent billing it is harder to push back on an entire hospital doing evil but lawful things.
always depends on who the “vote counters are”
otherwise there’d no crime but criminals dont think they’ll be caught
so they do their work
West Virginia… think about that
As opposed to… what?
east virginia??
When you think of West Virginia , I think of conservative, Davy Crockett types
Not Tran supporting pink hairs monsters
Every State has urban areas with lefty University Professors and a climate/culture that allows the leftist/wokiesta rot to spread outward. Little by little, year after year, additional steps leftward to wokiesta dominance are taken just like the frog boiling. Austin TX is a prime example, folks there liked it being different/weird but that toleration for quirkiness and refusal to be ‘judgemental’ allowed the Wolf into the barn.
A flicker of light in the gloom? Maaaybe.
Taxpayers should not be paying for ANY healthcare, let alone sex changes.
I can’t say I like it either but if you’re ever faced with a catastrophic health emergency that you don’t have half a million dollars to pay for, get back with us.
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Healthcare is important, no doubt, but then so is food, shelter, water, etc. Should all these important things necessary to life be shouldered by the taxpayers?
costs wouldnt be as high ifff the government wasnt making the payments
and then those in the private sector who support the sick would step up to the plate lest they fact the wrath of the public
so when they did/do fact that wrath ,, the government has stepped in to take the heat off their buddies/donors….hence the high catastrophic costs
b/c you are correct
the costs are insane
but the msm and the demrino’s have an agenda
and its them always being in control over us
and its much easier for a powerful gov official esp with the help of the msm to point fingers away from their hypocrisies
I suspect most Veterans and retired military will argue that our healthcare is an earned benefit. I certainly do.
IMO the best we can hope for is gutting Medicaid and Obama Care. Then allow risk based IN pricing and policy be sold across State lines along with bare bones catastrophic care policies and truly universal HSA. Require accurate and transparent pricing from Physician and hospitals so consumers can prices shop. Then use some of the Medicaid and Obama care funding to put the cost of the average catastrophic care policy into every Citizen’s HSA. Those people with super expensive/pre existing conditions can get a further targeted supplement. This puts consumers in charge of their health care, removes govt goofy mandates that distort the market. Probably saves at least 25% of what we spend on Medicaid and Obama Care and likely closer to 40%. That’s a substantial amount of money.
only the military deserve the tax funding and thats why
a) no more VA…just private sector …more accountability for fraud as opposed to making fraud a political hot potato
b) those who say they want to help are always free to help and instead of giving to pols give to the causes in that pols name so at least people can get the help and the accountability will be/might be held to higher standards if its persona;/private sector watching out for their money
vs
the conflict-of-interest civil servants doing the watching
So that means no Medicare either. I suspect that the AARP and their Boomer membership are gonna have some opinions when you try and take it away.
yeah I have tangled with the AARP on this and they seemed to go into hypertension mode
I asked them why they support socialism and they said we dont
so again,, they are self serving/protecting and can only be weeded out when those who are strong enough have the guts to stop them..which we can probably agree wont happen
but they still need to be challenged on it
EARNED is the key.
If you have worked on behalf of the government, and healthcare and/or health insurance is included in the compensation package, fine. That is a completely different scenario than the government simply paying for healthcare for any random person.
We spend more on fraud
Trillions