Wisconsin ordered to pay for gender reassignment surgeries

Wisconsin ordered to pay for gender reassignment surgeries:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Wisconsin to pay for the gender reassignment surgery for two transgender Medicaid recipients.
Cody Flack, 30, and Sara Ann Makenzie, 41, filed a lawsuit in April, saying a state rule denying coverage for surgeries to treat gender dysphoria violates the Affordable Care Act and their right to equal protection, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"The likelihood of ongoing, irreparable harm facing these two individual plaintiffs outweighs any marginal impacts on the defendants' stated concerns regarding public health or limiting costs," Conley said in the 39-page order.
...Flack, who has cerebral palsy, uses a motorized wheelchair and relies on Supplemental Security Income for the disabled as his sole support.
He first identified as a boy at age 5, according the lawsuit.
Makenzie is also is disabled and relies on Supplemental Security Income.
She has been living as a woman since 2012.
The state's Medicaid has a budget of approximately $9.7 billion to cover about 1.2 million eligible residents.
An estimated 5,000 of enrollees are transgender."
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