Clarify Clef's offering of trans-inclusive health care
jessepollak opened this issue · comments
In the words of @techiecheckie,
No mention of trans healthcare anywhere makes me, as you know, a trans person, nervous as hell. Maybe it's somewhere. But mentioning it explicitly would put a lot of trans coders instantly at ease.
@brennenbyrne also shared some thoughts:
yeah, this is something we did a lot of research on, and I agree that we should add a note about it. there's good news and bad news about this; the good news, CA requires healthcare providers not discriminate for most care. so any healthcare we provide is "trans-inclusive" in a broad sense. Unfortunately, in our research, there were no policies that didn't have strict requirements about trans-specific healthcare. All policies required psychological evals that force trans folk to be outed to their employer and "evaluated" before they got access to the care they need. We avoided Kaiser because they have a reputation for being the most difficult to work with for trans folk, but we couldn't find anything that gave better coverage for trans folks or had less draconian reqs. The lack of result kept us from mentioning it. We should talk about that finding and decision, though -- I'll work on it.
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