Comment on Judges Rule West Virginia and North Carolina’s Transgender Care Coverage Policies are Discriminatory

Judges Rule West Virginia and North Carolina’s Transgender Care Coverage Policies are Discriminatory

(CHARLESTON, W.Va.) — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “The coverage exclusions facially discriminate on the basis of sex and gender identity, and are not substantially related to an important government interest,” Judge Roger Gregory, first appointed by former President Bill Clinton and re-appointed by former President George W.

 

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