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Victory! Connecticut Lifts Medicaid Ban on Transgender Health Care
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) applauds the state of Connecticut for making transition-related health care available through its Medicaid program. Connecticut becomes the 7th jurisdiction to expand Medicaid coverage for transgender health care. Yesterday, Connecticut’s Legislative Regulation Review Committee approved a regulation that repeals the ban on coverage for the treatment of gender dysphoria, the diagnostic term used to refer to discomfort or distress caused by a difference between a person’s gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. This regulation will go into effect once it is posted to the Connecticut Secretary of State’s website, likely within the next 30 days.
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Victory! New York State Lifts Medicaid Ban on Transgender Health Care
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) applauds news that transgender New Yorkers covered by Medicaid can now access the medically necessary health care they have been denied for nearly two decades. Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health have officially adopted a new regulation that ends the 17-year-old exclusion of transgender health care from New York’s Medicaid program.
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New York State Issues Guidance Requiring Health Insurance Companies to Cover Transgender Health Care
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) today praised the New York State Department of Financial Services for issuing guidance requiring health insurance companies to cover transgender health care on the same terms as other care.
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Ireland : 80% of Trans People Have Considered Suicide
This afternoon (2 December 2013), TENI launched the results of the largest trans survey carried out in Ireland with the publication of Speaking from the Margins: Trans Mental Health and Wellbeing in Ireland.
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Gay Government Workers and the Wisconsin Public Unions
The public unions battle in Wisconsin is not a specific gay-issue, but it does affect many gays who work as government employees.
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Groundbreaking Study Finds Pervasive Discrimination Against Transgender People
A new study reveals pervasive discrimination against transgender and gender-nonconforming people in a variety of fields, including education, employment, housing, health care, and more.