NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Attorney General's Office celebrated a decision from a Mississippi U.S. District Court about gender-based discrimination in healthcare.

The decision, filed Wednesday, considered a May 2024 rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that redefined Title IX prohibitions on discrimination "on the basis of sex" to include gender identity. The federal court found the HHS exceeded its authority by implementing the regulation.

"When it enacted Title IX, Congress’s concern was prohibiting sex discrimination in education. It was particularly concerned with inequality that female students experienced," the decision reads, in part. "It did not at that time contemplate gender identity, transgender status, or 'gender-affirming care.'"

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti's Office said in a press release about the decision the rule, among other things, would have required some healthcare providers "to administer unproven and risky procedures for gender dysphoria."

“When Biden-era bureaucrats tried to illegally rewrite our laws to force radical gender ideology into every corner of American health care, Tennessee stood strong and stopped them,” Skrmetti said. “Our fifteen-State coalition worked together to protect the right of health care providers across America to make decisions based on evidence, reason, and conscience.  This decision restores not just common sense but also constitutional limits on federal overreach, and I am proud of the team of excellent attorneys who fought this through to the finish.”

Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia were a part of the coalition in this case.

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