More companies covering transgender surgery

Dan82 · Apr 6, 2011

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41705893/ns/business-consumer_news/

When Gina Duncan decided to undergo the medical treatment that would make her a woman, she had plenty to fear. The reactions of her children, her professional colleagues and friends. How her body would respond to hours on the operating table. If, at the end of it, she would look female enough so strangers wouldn't gawk.

What the Orlando mortgage banker didn't have to be anxious about was how she would pay for two of her surgeries. Her employer of 10 years, Wells Fargo, included breast augmentation and genital reconstruction as coverable expenses under its employee health plan. Duncan was told the San Francisco-based bank already had had 16 other employees transition to new genders and assigned a benefits specialist to walk her through the process...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41705893/ns/business-consumer_news/
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Emberstone · Apr 6, 2011

I commend companies for doing this, even if wells fargo is one of them (*grinds teeth*, dont mind me, personal grudge over this mishandling of the fund set aside to pay for my education).

I wonder if the republicans will take a cue from their overlords, and stop scapegoating lgbt people now that coorporations are moving away from doing that.

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