Transgender Patients in Growing Fight Over Health Coverage
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Transgender-Patients-in-Growing-Fight-Over-Health-Coverage-229285851.html10/25/13
By Nina Martin
Last spring, Jennifer Blair, a 62-year-old aspiring therapist who lives in Denver, noticed the kind of changes in her breast tissue 2014 rapid, abnormal growth on one side of her chest 2014 that would frighten any woman and alarm any physician.
Blair didn't have health insurance, but because she didn't earn much money, she qualified for Colorado's state-run Women's Wellness Connection program, which funds free mammograms through Planned Parenthood and other health-care providers.
Or so she thought. Blair was born a male, undergoing gender-reassignment surgery a decade ago. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which pays for the mammogram program, requires clients getting free screenings to be "genetically female."
