Hospital chain sued for refusing to cover sex reassignment’s cost

[stephaniec]

Hospital chain sued for refusing to cover sex reassignment's cost

http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Hospital-chain-sued-for-refusing-to-cover-cost-of-7966596.php

SF Gate/y Bob Egelko Updated 5:53 pm, Monday, June 6, 2016

"A transgender nurse sued California's largest private hospital chain, Dignity Health of San Francisco, on Monday for denying him insurance coverage for hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery, which the company attributed to a "personality disorder."
Joe Robinson, an operating-room nurse at Chandler Regional Medical Center in Chandler, Ariz., filed the suit in federal court in San Francisco, saying Dignity Health's stated policy of refusing coverage to its employees for all treatment "leading to sex-transformation surgery" violates federal laws against sex discrimination."

[Colleen M]

I've got a mental bet on how the 9th Circuit will handle this one.  One more reason the person picking SCOTUS nominees might matter over the next few years.