Under a new rule approved by Florida health officials last month, trans patients can no longer use Medicaid to pay for their gender-affirming care.
Although Dekker had been taking testosterone injections for years, he said he decided to get top surgery because of the shifting political and social climate — as more states, including Florida, try to roll back access to gender-affirming care.
The state’s Medicaid exclusion occurs amid a larger effort, in Florida and elsewhere, to roll back access to gender transition care, particularly for trans youths. Conservative lawmakers argue that these policies are meant to protect children and families from harmful procedures they may later regret.
“It’s important that we dispel the myths that allow people to believe that bans like this are protecting anyone,” Chriss said. “They are harming people and denying them access to care that has been deemed medically necessary for them.”Omar Gonzalez-Pagan of Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ civil rights organization also challenging the rule, added that the procedures banned for trans patients are still covered for cisgender Medicaid patients using them to treat other conditions.
Gender-affirming care can, but does not always, include medical interventions such as hormone replacement therapy, chest surgery or voice therapy. Although conservative politicians —
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