A federal judge in Texas has struck down a provision of the Affordable Care Act that bars hospitals and other health care providers from discriminating against patients based on gender identity.
Related: The state of transgender health care
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor wrote in the decision that Section 1557 of the ACA, which the Obama administration only implemented in May, likely violates the religious freedom of health care providers.
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