College Health Plans Increasingly Accommodating Transgender Students

Hormone therapy, sex-change surgery covered

Colleges and universities are increasingly recognizing and accommodating their transgender students. When Brown University announced last week that, beginning in August, its student health plan would be extended to cover sex-change surgery, it became the 36th college to do so. Other institutions' student plans don't cover surgery, but do cover related hormone therapy; and a remaining handful of institutions have plans that cover some or all sex-change treatments for their employees. These schools include America's elite: Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Penn, Yale, Princeton, M.I.T., and others. Many are following suit in their accommodations; several major insurers have taken the stance that surgery can be 'medically necessary', and the IRS considers the expenses tax-deductible. (Washington Post)

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