Monday, June 23, 2014

Obama’s Quiet Crusade for Transgender Rights | TheBlaze.com

Obama’s Quiet Crusade for Transgender Rights | TheBlaze.com:

"The leader of the Traditional Values Coalition says there is little recourse because the changes come through executive orders and federal agencies rather than Congress.

The latest wins came this month, when the Office of Personnel Management announced that government-contracted health insurers could start covering the cost of gender reassignment surgeries for federal employees, retirees and their survivors, ending a 40-year prohibition. Two weeks earlier, a decades-old rule preventing Medicare from financing such procedures was overturned within the Department of Health and Human Services."

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