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Bill Would Make Insurance Cover Body-Acceptance Treatments For Trans Desisters

Rep. Harshbarger’s new bill could help the victims of transgender ideology access the real care they need.

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Soren Aldaco was 19 when a surgeon amputated her healthy breasts on the recommendation of a therapist who responded to the teen’s gender dysphoria by encouraging her to pursue irreversible surgery. Now one of the many young people who regret being deceived by transgender ideology, Aldaco sued her therapist for malpractice, and in a landmark case the Texas Supreme Court affirmed her suit can move forward.

But there’s another cost for the victims of trans mania that Aldaco told me is “too often overlooked”: the expensive medical care that’s often required to treat the lifelong physical consequences of transgender interventions.

Texas passed landmark legislation last year requiring insurance companies that foot the bill for transgender procedures to also cover rehabilitative care for people who “detransition” after receiving opposite-sex hormones and elective amputations. Now, new legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress by Rep. Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee could expand those requirements nationwide.

“It’s outrageous that a health plan can cover sex-rejecting procedures but refuse to cover the restorative care patients need to address the harm they cause. That’s not a fair deal for patients who want to restore healthy bodily function,” Harshbarger said in a press release announcing the proposal. “Patients should never be abandoned after undergoing life-altering, harmful medical interventions once reality sets in.”

Dubbed the Treatment and Restoration Uniformity and Transparency in Health Coverage (TRUTH in Coverage) Act, the legislation has a companion bill in the U.S. Senate introduced by Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas.

The act would require private insurers that cover “sex-rejecting procedures,” such as genital mutilation and opposite-sex hormones, to pay for “restorative care”........

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