Federal Judge Says State Not Obligated to Pay for Sex-Change Surgery

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Federal Judge Says State Not Obligated to Pay for Sex-Change Surgery

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432579448&Federal_Judge_Says_State_Not_Obligated_to_Pay_for_SexChange_Surgery
7/28/09

New York state is not obligated to pay for gender reassignment surgery for a Medicaid recipient, even though it provided coverage for individual procedures that are necessary preliminaries to the change, a federal judge in Buffalo has determined.