(Bloomberg) — Transgender individuals would gain new health-care protections in rules proposed today by U.S. regulators.
Under the rules, discrimination against transgender people would be a form of sex discrimination.
That would block insurers from categorically denying coverage for treatments that help people transition to another gender, according to a fact sheet released today by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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