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Federal court rules Alaska’s denial of health care to transgender woman is unlawful discrimination

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Jennifer Fletcher – Photo: Lambda Legal. Last week, a federal court found that the state of Alaska unlawfully discriminated against a transgender state worker when it denied her insurance coverage for transition-related surgery due to an exclusion in her employee health care plan.

Jennifer Fletcher, 37, a legislative librarian, sued the state after her employer-sponsored plan, known as AlaskaCare, denied her coverage in 2017 for gender confirmation surgery due to the exclusion.

As a result, Fletcher was required to pay more than $25,000 in out-of-pocket costs to pay for the surgery and related recuperative care, even though the state of Alaska’s consultant had estimated in 2016 that the cost of coverage for the surgery would be negligible

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