From the Free Bacon, Oregon Poised To Force Health Insurers To Cover Trans Genital Surgeries for Children—or Risk Losing Their Licenses. "Proposed rule relies on WPATH guidelines, which call procedures ‘medically necessary’ to expand insurance coverage."
Oregon officials are set to require health insurers, both public and private, to cover procedures like sex-change surgeries and cross-sex hormones for all ages. Those that fail to do so risk losing their state licenses.
The proposed rule from Oregon's Department of Consumer and Business Services relies on the latest standards of care developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which called transgender genital surgeries and other procedures "medically necessary" to justify expanding insurance coverage.
The policy change stems from a 2023 law that made Oregon one of several so-called trans sanctuaries, guaranteeing that minors could receive puberty blockers and chemical or surgical sex changes. The rule, set to take effect next year, dictates "what insurance companies are required to cover and how they provide that coverage," according to Department of Consumer and Business Services spokesman Mark Peterson.
While Oregon won’t be the first state to require insurers to cover gender procedures, it will be the among the first to cite, on its own accord, WPATH's latest standards of care in a statewide rule.
WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) is a 501(c)(3) lobbying organization dedicated to the normalization to transsexuality, and the practice of "gender affirming" treatment, including hormone treatment and surgery for children who believe themselves be "born in the wrong body." Not exactly a collection of disinterested experts.
Where does the government get the [power to do this. If it can do this what is the limit of their ability to issue edicts on the rest of us?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good reason for health insurers to flee Oregon.
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