Transgender Employees Sue Florida For Not Covering Reassignment Surgery

Two government employed transgender individuals are suing the state of Florida over what NBC News is calling a “trans health care ban”.

According to the lawsuit, the two transgender women (so… men) want taxpayers to fund their surgeries to affirm their gender.

“We brought this lawsuit because all people need access to medical care. This is not about special treatment; this is about equal treatment,” said lead counsel Simone Chriss. “Transgender state employees are singled out and explicitly denied coverage for one reason: They are transgender. That is discrimination, and it cannot stand.”

Just for my own curiosity, does anyone know if boob jobs are covered by state healthcare providers? That’s literally the exact same thing. All someone has to do is say “I’m going to be mentally ill if I don’t get a boob job,” and they have the exact same case being made by attorneys in this case.

From The Hill:

Working with the ACLU of Florida, Southern Legal Counsel and attorney Eric Lindstrom, the two plaintiffs, Jami Clare and Kathryn Lane, are aiming to end Florida’s State Plan Exclusion. As the title implies, this rule explicitly prevents state-sponsored health plans — like those for state employees — from covering “gender reassignment or modification services or supplies.”

The suit states that “as a result of the State Plan Exclusion, nontransgender employees receive coverage for all medically necessary health care, but transgender employees do not.”

“Nontransgender” is a funny word to say “normal”, but that’s lawyer-speak for you.

NBC News states that the plaintiffs are both employees of the state of Florida — Claire is a researcher at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and Lane works in a Tallahassee public defender’s office. Both are covered by employer-sponsored health plans, but since the plans are provided by the state, they are banned from any coverage for transition-related health care.

NBC also compares getting testicular cancer to having “gender dysphoria”, saying that a “cisgender” person (another word for normal) would be able to get surgery for CANCER, but a man who thinks he’s a woman doesn’t get state-sponsored wiener removal.

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