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Title: Healthcare Ruling Offers Huge Benefits For Trans Americans
Post by: MadelineB on June 29, 2012, 01:30:28 AM
Bridgette P. LaVictoire
June 28, 2012
http://lezgetreal.com/2012/06/healthcare-ruling-offers-huge-benefits-for-trans-americans/ (http://lezgetreal.com/2012/06/healthcare-ruling-offers-huge-benefits-for-trans-americans/)

Masen Davis, the Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center stated "I breathed a huge sigh of relief this morning when I learned that ... provisions to protect the health of transgender people will remain intact."

Dr. Nick Gorton, of Lyon-Martin Health Services, stated that "...[the] health care reform law will have a tremendous impact on the transgender community just by ensuring access to the basic primary care that every American deserves."