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Title: Transgender advocates want free mammograms under Obamacare
Post by: Amelia Pond on October 21, 2013, 12:57:13 PM
Post by: Amelia Pond on October 21, 2013, 12:57:13 PM
Transgender advocates want free mammograms under Obamacare (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/18/advocates-demand-free-mammograms-transgender-women/)
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times, October 18, 2013
Two advocacy groups are demanding that transgender women be given free mammograms under President Obama's new health care law, following reports that a transgender woman was denied a government-financed mammogram at a clinic in Colorado.
"That is irrational discrimination, plain and simple," said Harper Jean Tobin, director of policy for the National Center for Transgender Equality.
"Breast-cancer screenings save lives and should be available to all women, period," added Shane Snowdon, director of the Human Rights Campaign's health and aging program.
Mr. Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination "on the basis of sex, including on the basis of gender identity or sex stereotyping," they wrote Friday in a letter to Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Current federal guidance says that only women who are "genetically female" are eligible for subsidized mammograms.
Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times, October 18, 2013
Two advocacy groups are demanding that transgender women be given free mammograms under President Obama's new health care law, following reports that a transgender woman was denied a government-financed mammogram at a clinic in Colorado.
"That is irrational discrimination, plain and simple," said Harper Jean Tobin, director of policy for the National Center for Transgender Equality.
"Breast-cancer screenings save lives and should be available to all women, period," added Shane Snowdon, director of the Human Rights Campaign's health and aging program.
Mr. Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination "on the basis of sex, including on the basis of gender identity or sex stereotyping," they wrote Friday in a letter to Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Current federal guidance says that only women who are "genetically female" are eligible for subsidized mammograms.