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What You Need to Know About the ACA's Trans Protections

Started by stephaniec, September 03, 2015, 05:14:45 PM

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September 03, 2015, 05:14:45 PM
What You Need to Know About the ACA's Trans Protections

http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/09/03/what-you-need-know-about-affordable-care-acts-trans-protections

The Advocate/BY Cleis Abeni September 03 2015 4:39 PM ET 

""It's widely believed that the Affordable Care Act made it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against transgender individuals seeking health care coverage," said Washington, D.C.-based transgender Latina health advocate Joanna Maria Cifredo in an interview published online Wednesday by Latina Magazine. "However, this is partially correct. The ACA made it so that an insurance company can't deny you health care coverage for being transgender, but that doesn't mean they will cover transition-related treatment, such as hormone replacement therapy or transition-related surgeries that are often deemed 'aesthetic."
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