New protections for transgender patients are coming

[stephaniec]

New protections for transgender patients are coming

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/health-care/new-protections-transgender-patients-are-coming 🔗

MarketPlace/by Dan Gorenstein Monday, November 2, 2015 - 05:00

"For years, transgender adults have faced discrimination in healthcare so hostile it's almost laughable. Almost.

"A trans-woman broke her arm playing softball," said Mara Keisling, executive director the National Center for Transgender Equality. "The insurance company refused to pay for it because if she hadn't been transgender she wouldn't have been playing softball. There's just a million stories like that.""

[CaptainxTatsuo]

or if you change your legal name and they do not
seem to want to get on board like ya know
accepting that you have legally changed it. I mean
there is just so much red tap, that is now coming down..
it's about time!