[Several States] Requiring Health Insurers To Cover Gender Transition

[Declan.]

Thanks to Jenna Marie for finding the link.

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-gender-identity-connecticut-1227-20131226,0,1545137.story

Author: DANIELA ALTIMARI,
Source: The Hartford Courant

"The Connecticut Insurance Department is directing all health insurance companies operating in the state to provide coverage of mental health counseling, hormone therapy, surgery and other treatments related to a patient's gender transition...

... Regulators in California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, D.C., have issued similar bulletins instructing insurers to cover treatment for transgender patients, according to GLAD. The organization is pushing for similar insurance rules in every New England state."

[Jamie D]

I am in California, and this is welcome news.  Now, if I can only find a doctor who will prescribe HRT for me