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Margery A. Beck, Associated Press
Updated
8:25آ*am PST, Friday, March 8, 2019
The
Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that the state cannot deny two transgender women
Medicaid coverage for sex
reassignment surgery.
In its ruling Friday, the state’s high court agreed with Judge Arthur Gamble’s ruling in June that a 1995
Iowa Department of Human Services policy denying
Medicaid coverage for sex
reassignment surgery violates the state’s 2007 Civil Rights Act, which added gender identity to the state’s list of protected classes.
Gamble also deemed state’s 1995 policy unconstitutional, but the high court did not address that finding.
The ruling comes in the consolidated cases of Carol Ann Beal and EerieAnna Good, who sued in 2017 after their
Medicaid provider and the
Iowa Department of Human Services denied
surgery requests recommended by doctors.
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