Insurance regulators in Hawaii want to help people in the state compare health plans' gender transition benefits.

The effort may mean that agents, brokers and other benefits advisors in Hawaii — and in any states that follow Hawaii's lead — will have one more coverage detail to explain to clients.

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The memo

Colin Hayashida, Hawaii's insurance commissioner, put the state's gender transition benefits disclosure guidelines in a new memo.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.