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Wikimedia Commons The ACLU is filing a new lawsuit in Polk County District Court challenging the state’s policy to deny Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgeries. A lawsuit filed Thursday by the ACLU of Iowa is the next step in an ongoing legal battle over the state’s policy to not pay for gender-affirming surgeries through Medicaid, the state and federal program that provides health care for low-income individuals and families. The suit was filed on behalf of Aiden Vasquez, a transgender man who was denied coverage by the Iowa Department of Human Services to have surgery to treat gender-dysphoria, a condition that can occur when a person’s biological sex differs from their gender identity. ....
By Jason Taylor Apr 23, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa - A new lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union seeks to let transgender Iowans get gender-affirming surgery through Medicaid. The suit calls for the reversal of an Iowa law allowing state and local governments to deny coverage for the surgery. It was filed on behalf of Aiden Vasquez, who was denied coverage by the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) after his doctor recommended the surgery. The lawsuit claims the Iowa law is unconstitutional because it intentionally discriminates against transgender Iowans. The ACLU first won a case for the surgery in 2018. Iowa lawmakers then changed the law so that organizations using public insurance money could opt out of covering transgender surgery. ....
By Jason Taylor Apr 23, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa - A new lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union seeks to let transgender Iowans get gender-affirming surgery through Medicaid. The suit calls for the reversal of an Iowa law allowing state and local governments to deny coverage for the surgery. It was filed on behalf of Aiden Vasquez, who was denied coverage by the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) after his doctor recommended the surgery. The lawsuit claims the Iowa law is unconstitutional because it intentionally discriminates against transgender Iowans. The ACLU first won a case for the surgery in 2018. Iowa lawmakers then changed the law so that organizations using public insurance money could opt out of covering transgender surgery. ....