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Refusing Trans Insurance Coverage is Unlawful, Court Rules

filed a lawsuit against West Virginia officials on behalf of a Medicaid participant, Christopher Fain, who was denied coverage for gender confirmation surgery. That same lawsuit also previously challenged a similar exclusion contained in West Virginia’s state employee health insurance plan on behalf of two state employees who could not obtain coverage for gender-affirming treatments, either for themselves or their dependents.Lambda Legal subsequently added additional transgender plaintiffs to the case, including Shauntae Anderson.The state employee plaintiffs’ claims were eventually resolved by a 2022 settlement with The Health Plan of West Virginia, Inc., which removed its exclusion on gender-affirming care.The lawsuit subsequently resumed, challenging only the Medicaid exclusion.In August 2022, a federal judge ruled that West Virginia’s Medicaid program could no longer discriminate against transgender recipients by failing to cover the cost of surgical care deemed medically necessary for treating a person’s gender dysphoria.
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Scientists set up 'alien telescope' to listen to messages sent to Earth from outer space
Scientists have set up an “alien telescope” that focuses purely on sounds coming to Earth from outer space.Researchers at the National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia – one of the quietest places on the planet, where mobile phones don’t work and WiFi is scarce – are hoping to pick up messages from extra-terrestrial beings.A huge receiver that is 100 metres wide and fully steerable turns radio waves from space into electric signals that boffins then analyse.Dr Ethan Siegel, a theoretical astrophysicist working on the project, said aliens could be trying to send us messages from deep space.He told FreeThink: “If someone is actively speaking to us from across the universe, if we didn’t listen because we didn’t find it easily the first time, how much would we be short-changing ourselves through our own short sightedness?“If we discover we're not alone in the universe it will change forever how we view life on earth… (but) the way we’re going to find it is not through grainy footage or pixels we can’t make out.”Although there have been plenty of supposed UFOs caught on camera, researchers can’t find out much from the footage as it is often blurry and could have easily been edited.Stay up to date with all the Daily Star's latest news by signing up to one of our free newsletters here.But the new project to listen to outer space could prove the key to having definitive proof of life outside of planet Earth.Ryan Lynch, a scientist at the Green Bank Observatory, added: “The radio signals we’re trying to pick up from space are extremely weak.“It’s like casting a net – the bigger the receiver dish, the bigger the net and the weaker the signals we can pick up.” It comes as governments around the world start to take UFO sightings
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Marilyn Monroe's wild love life - married at 16 and 'JFK affair covered up by FBI'
Netflix has released a tell-all documentary in her honour, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes.The film centres around the untimely death of the actress, using archival footage and unseen interviews with friends of Monroe.The documentary also recounts Monroe's life story, including her major romantic relationships.Following the release of the new documentary, the Daily Star has taken a look at Monroe's wild love life.Long before she became Marilyn Monroe, the most iconic woman in the world, Norma Jeane Baker, was a teenager who had been in and out of foster homes.Her father was never identified and her mother was committed to hospital due to paranoid schizophrenia.In 1934, seven-year-old Baker was made a ward of the state and her mother’s friend, Grace Goddard, took her in.A new job opportunity took the Goddards to West Virginia in 1942, however, California state laws meant they could not take their ward out of the state.Baker was given an ultimatum - return to the orphanage or marry the son of a neighbour.She married 21-year-old factory worker James Dougherty on June 19, 1942, just 18 days after her 16th birthday.Dougherty joined the Merchant Marines and was stationed overseas whilst Baker took a job at a factory.Here, she was spotted by a photographer and signed a modelling contract. Within six months, she had appeared on more than 30 magazine covers.With a taste for stardom, Baker began to chase a film career.
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