Transgender woman wins struggle to get disability benefits from 2005
By REBECCA MADDEN
TIMES STAFF WRITER
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20110526/NEWS03/305269993

A Jefferson County woman has won a six-year battle with the New York State Workers' Compensation Board to receive short-term disability benefits for the time she couldn't work while recovering from gender-reassignment surgery.

Denise Rhone, a 57-year-old Dexter resident, and her attorney, Catherine J. Palermo, will go before the board sometime in the future to find out how much in back-benefits Ms. Rhone will receive.