Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Preliminary Injunction Decision

Executive Summary

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Wisconsin health officials from enforcing a sweeping ban on medically necessary care for Wisconsin’s transgender Medicaid beneficiaries. Read the preliminary injunction decision in Flack v. Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Earlier this year, the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, the Wisconsin law firm McNally Peterson, S.C., and National Health Law Program challenged Wisconsin’s discriminatory policy harming transgender individuals on behalf of Mr. Cody Flack and Ms. Sara Anna Makenzie.