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sued in court, arguing that the insurance exclusion in the county’s employee health plan is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Specifically, she argued that the policy discriminates against her (and other transgender individuals) on the basis of sex, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, and violates her right to equal protection under the law, as guaranteed by both the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Georgia Constitution.Chief Judge Marc Treadwell, of the U.S.

2022 ruling that Houston County, in rural Southern Georgia, discriminated against Anna Lange, an 18-year veteran of the county’s sheriff’s office, when it refused to amend a decades-old exclusion on gender-affirming care in its employee health insurance plan.Under the exclusion, county dollars are prohibited from being used, either directly or indirectly through insurance, to pay for treatments meant to assist someone in transitioning from one gender to another.Following a two-day trial after that ruling, a jury found that Lange had been unfairly discriminated against due to the insurance exclusion, and awarded her $60,000 in damages.Houston County appealed the lower court’s decision to the 11th Circuit, seeking to overturn it. The appeals court subsequently found that the that a health insurance provider can be held liable under Title VII for denying coverage for surgical interventions — which might otherwise be offered to cisgender individuals — due a person’s transgender identity.Additionally, the 11th Circuit found that the lower court did not abuse its discretion when it granted a permanent injunction blocking the county from enforcing the health plan exclusions for gender-affirming care.Referencing Supreme Court precedent finding that anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace is inherently a form of sex-based discrimination, the appeals court found that the insurance exclusion in Houston County’s plan was a form of unlawful discrimination.“The Exclusion is a blanket denial of coverage for gender-affirming surgery,” Circuit Judge Charles Wilson wrote for the 11th Circuit.

lottery tickets after a shop assistant was shot during a robbery gone wrong.And to make it worse, the victim died.Local police in Houston, Texas, said that Lakiesha Deshawn McGhee, 43, was actually a victim of the the armed robbery.It took place at a video poker and lottery ticket shop in Houston County, where Ms McGhee was playing video poker at the time three masked and armed men entered and robbed the place at gunpoint.They stole her cash and one man broke into the store's office, opening fire and killing the staff member inside.However, it later became apparent that McGhee had taken advantage of the situation and stole “lottery tickets from the office where the victim was found” at the J&J Dollar Store, which used to be a house converted into a gift store in the area.Houston Sheriff Captain Jon Holland said: “Also, McGhee disconnected the power to the building security system for a brief period before law enforcement and other first responders arrived.”The value of the tickets stolen has not been disclosed, but it was made clear that the woman did call for medical intervention and checked the man's wounds before committing the heinous act.Captain Holland told the Macon Telegraph that McGhee appeared to have checked on the clerk’s wounds before taking the tickets in the moments before police arrived.Ms McGhee is thought to be a licensed practical nurse.The woman was charged with theft by taking and tampering with evidence and remains in custody at the Houston County Detention Center without bond.And CrimeStoppers is offering an £8,000 reward for tips leading to the capture of the three men.The investigation into the murder is still ongoing, and nobody has yet been arrested for the incident.Stay in the loop with all

thousands of pounds to buy her baby during a strange encounter inside a supermarket. Rebecca Taylor, from Texas, was charged with sale or purchase of a child after she reportedly told a woman in Walmart she would give her £370,907 [$500,000] if she handed over her son.

Robert Matthew Van Winkle, best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is scheduled to perform at the Emerald Point Bar & Grill in Austin, Texas on Friday, according to a social media post from the venue.