West Virginia asks Supreme Court to allow Medicaid to deny coverage for gender-affirming surgery

West Virginia will take its fight over whether its Medicaid program must cover gender-affirming surgeries to the Supreme Court, the state’s Republican attorney general announced Thursday. 

“Once again, the state of West Virginia is going to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said at a news conference in Bridgeport, W.Va. 

The announcement is the latest development in a legal battle that's been ongoing since 2020, when three...