The changes will take effect July 25. In the lawsuit, three Alaskans argue the state’s refusal to cover transition-related health care was a civil-rights violation.
The change is the result of a settlement infiled against the state health department that challenged the legality of excluding transgender Alaskans from health coverage related to their gender transitions.
The 2020 lawsuit was an amended version of one filed in 2019. At the time, Alaska was one of less than a dozen states with a Medicaid program that explicitly excluded coverage for gender-affirming care.as “the clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of function associated with the incongruence between a transgender person’s gender identity and assigned sex.
from a contractor for the state that said “hormonal injections and lab work associated with gender reassignment is not a covered benefit under Alaska Medicaid.”
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