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D.C. Government Announces Comprehensive Health Care Coverage for Transgender Residents

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2014.  Today, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announced that public and private health insurance plans that the D.C. government regulates—including Medicaid, D.C. government employee insurance, and private plans sold on D.C.’s health exchange—are required to cover transition-related care.

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The new announcement makes D.C. healthcare coverage the most comprehensive plans for transgender Americans in the United States, a direct result of concerted advocacy from local activists, the National Center for Transgender Equality, or NCTE, the…

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