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Winning plaintiffs reject SCOTUS review of NC transgender treatment case

Plaintiffs are asking the nation’s highest court not to consider a case challenging the North Carolina State Health Plan’s ban on funding medical treatments typically sought by transgender patients. The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the plaintiffs and against the State Health Plan in April.

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Appeals Court ruling could force state to proceed with prison inmate’s sex-change surgery

A split federal Appeals Court panel ruled Thursday that a trial judge’s order could force the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction to reconsider a prison inmate’s requested sex-change surgery. The department had initially rejected the surgery for Kanautica Zayre-Brown as “medically unnecessary.”

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Counties, Metros Buy Abortions With Taxpayer Funds

RALEIGH — Tempers flared in Wake County Monday, when county commissioners met to consider nixing from their own health plan elective abortions, which are those deemed medically unnecessary. The meeting nearly deteriorated into a shouting match.

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Winning plaintiffs reject SCOTUS review of NC transgender treatment case

Appeals Court ruling could force state to proceed with prison inmate’s sex-change surgery

Counties, Metros Buy Abortions With Taxpayer Funds

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