BUZZ FEED- POLITICSMemo: ObamaCare Will Bar Discrimination Against Transgender PeopleThe Department of Health and Human Services promises LGBT groups it will investigate complaints about gender identity discrimination in health programs that receive federal funding. Chris Geidner BuzzFeed Staff | Aug 6, 2012 1:39pm EDT
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/memo-obamacare-will-bar-discrimination-against-trFederal health-care programs and those funded with federal dollars are barred from discriminating against transgender people, a senior official with the Department of Health and Human Services told LGBT advocacy groups in July — a sweeping decision that will impact most health-care services across the country.
Although the decision does not specifically address transition-related care — surgery and other medical procedures that some transgender people undergo in the course of moving to their self-identified gender — a leading transgender advocate says the decision is a "tool" to get protections that would cover transition-related care.
