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fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

Trans women win court victory after insurance company denied their gender-affirming surgeries - LGBTQ Nation

A federal court granted a preliminary injunction requiring Aetna to reconsider denying facial feminization surgery to transgender women, ruling the blanket exclusion constitutes sex discrimination.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

Aetna to cover IVF treatments for same-sex couples

Like many young girls, Mara Berton and June Higginbotham knew from an early age they wanted families and to become mothers. But as lesbians, they were excluded from accessing the same fertility treatment insurance benefits offered to heterosexual peers. Instead, like many other same-sex couples, Berton and Higginbotham, who live in Santa Clara County, had to pay $45,000 out of pocket to conceive while heterosexual colleagues with the same insurance plan had many of those costs covered.
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