Federal Court: N.Y. Had Right to Halt Medicaid Funding for Gender Reassignment

[Natasha]

Federal Court: N.Y. Had Right to Halt Medicaid Funding for Gender Reassignment

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423665380
Noeleen G. Walder
8/11/2008

A federal court has held that New York state had the right to stop
using Medicaid funds to cover the cost of gender reassignment
treatments for a 48-year-old plaintiff who has been living as a woman
since the age of 20.

[tekla]

Crappy decision, but if you depend on other people (in this case the state) to get things done for you, you are allowing other people to control you.