Should gender reassignment surgery be covered under employee health insurance?

by **plys** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:42 pm

"Last year, 85 companies had insurance plans that paid for gender reassignment surgeries, and only 49 did in 2009. A decade ago, when the campaign launched the index, none did.

The major force behind the jump is the fact that this is the first year the Human Rights Campaign graded corporations and law firms on whether their medical plans paid for the full complement of procedures workers might need to transition to a new gender on the job, from psychological counseling to physical reconstruction.

To maintain a coveted 100 percent and a listing in the campaign’s preferred vendors’ guide for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender consumers, companies had to offer at least one insurance plan that covers at least $75,000 worth of surgery and other treatments recommended by a patient’s doctor."

by **muata2** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:47 pm

Hell no. Personal choices don't count.

Can someone get breast implants on employee health insurence?

by **wal49** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:49 pm

No, most plans don't even cover dental anymore we don't need to give companies any more incentive to just drop us all because some heshe wants to be a shehe

by **galvin** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:02 pm

hmmm good question..let us know when you hear back from your insurance company. lolzzzz

by **nissim42** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:13 pm

I don't see why they shouldn't. It's a legitimate medical issue and you have to go through a lot of evaluations and therapy to get the surgery. It's not done on a whim or "just because."

by **oded** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:18 pm

No, gender reassignment surgery should not be covered under employee health insurance. What should be covered are medical procedures that will enable a developing fetus to be born in the "right body" to prevent any physical mutilation later on in life.

We all know we are born in the right body, some of us do not develop the brain that suits our sexual orientation.

by **taillefer** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:24 pm

Yes, also species reassignment.

by **elton** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:27 pm

I don't see why not...Our navy even pays for breast implants, for purely psychological reasons, of course :/

by **rushford79** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:39 pm

No, because we shouldn't have employer-based health insurance. It's a ridiculous system and we need to switch.

by **chavivi** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:43 pm

Of course it should. The cost to cover all the gender confirmation surgeries, facial feminization surgeries, hormone therapy, psychotherapy, and other associated expenses for all the Transsexual people in America wouldn't even cost as much as the massive number of bypass surgeries done each year for people who CHOOSE to eat garbage diets and lay around like lumps on a log. Why is it okay to cover diseases of excess and poor lifestyles under insurance, but not to cover a physical birth condition a person has no control over. Transsexualism is essentially no different from cleft lip & palate syndrome. All physical birth conditions should be covered by insurance, PERIOD.

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