Alex Azar

Washington state sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, for “strip(ping) sexual orientation, sex stereotyping and gender identity from the definition of prohibited sex discrimination” in a Final Rule of June 19, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Bostock v. Clayton County, that “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status is unlawful discrimination because of sex.”

SEATTLE — Washington state **sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, for “strip(ping) sexual orientation, sex stereotyping and gender identity from the definition of prohibited sex discrimination” in a Final Rule of June 19, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Bostock v. Clayton County , that “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status is unlawful discrimination because of sex.”

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