Having gender variance classified as a mental disorder and relying on that for health insurance coverage is a bit of false logic. Most insurance companies in the U.S. exclude treatments for Gender Identity Disorder, but there hormonal imbalances are covered for all kinds of conditions that are not related to GID. People who need to have medical support to manage their gender variance can and should be able to access competent medical care through health insurance, but for the most part right now a GID diagnosis must be avoided if coverage is expected. There are transgender health advocates working to address this issue systemically, both from the activist side as well as from the health care provider side. Thanks, by the way, for your generally excellent responses to the questions raised about this sorely neglected and unfortunately too long obscured topic.
It's Not as Simple as Pink or Blue
- Share:
-
Email To A Friend
Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link.
Debra Rosenberg: Hi everyone. I'm Debra Rosenberg, Assistant Managing Editor at Newsweek, and I wrote this week's cover story on Rethinking Gender. I oversee the magazine's coverage of health, science and social issues. I'm happy to answer your questions on gender and transgender.
_______________________
Collierville, TN: When one uses the terms "transman" or "transwoman," to what do they refer? An individual who has gone through sexual reassignment surgery, one who is planning to do so, or simply a transgendered individual? Does the "man/woman" designmation refer to their pre- or post-operative sex or to their own specified gender identity?
Debra Rosenberg: When someone uses the term "transman" or "transwoman," they are referring to the new gender that the person has become. Transgender is an umbrella term that encompasses people who have had surgery or taken hormones as well as those who haven't taken any physical steps to change genders but still feel a disconnect between their gender and their biological sex.
_______________________
Clearwater beach, FL: Does a child send his father, who changed into a woman, a mothers day card on mothers day or a fathers day card on fathers day? or does he send a mothers day card on fathers day? or how does he address his father now that he changed gender,call him mom or dad? like steve stanton turned into susan stanton? the child will eventually want to forget about his dad or disrespect his father because of the ridicule he will he through at school,out in public the next few yrs!
- Share:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
