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Some U.S.A. states have banned insurance companies from excluding transition-related care.<ref name="HRCmap">{{Cite web |title=State Maps of Laws & Policies: Transgender Healthcare |work=Human Rights Campaign |date=2 January 2020 |access-date=13 April 2020 |url= https://www.hrc.org/state-maps/transgender-healthcare}}</ref> Additionally, Medicare covers necessary transition-related care since May 2014 when the exclusion was removed.<ref name="tran_Heal">{{Cite web |title=Know Your Rights: Health Care |author= |work=National Center for Transgender Equality |date= |access-date=13 April 2020 |url= https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/health-care }}</ref> | Some U.S.A. states have banned insurance companies from excluding transition-related care.<ref name="HRCmap">{{Cite web |title=State Maps of Laws & Policies: Transgender Healthcare |work=Human Rights Campaign |date=2 January 2020 |access-date=13 April 2020 |url= https://www.hrc.org/state-maps/transgender-healthcare}}</ref> Additionally, Medicare covers necessary transition-related care since May 2014 when the exclusion was removed.<ref name="tran_Heal">{{Cite web |title=Know Your Rights: Health Care |author= |work=National Center for Transgender Equality |date= |access-date=13 April 2020 |url= https://transequality.org/know-your-rights/health-care }}</ref> | ||
The Affordable Care Act and other USA laws prohibit sex-based discrimination, and in 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services clarified in a letter that this provision also covers "discrimination based on [[gender identity]] or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity".<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/102169872/HHS-Response-1557-7-12-12</ref> | |||
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