Brown U's student health plan will cover sex changes

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February 7, 2013

Brown U's student health plan will cover sex changes
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The Daily Caller reports:

Students at Brown University who decide they want to change genders will now be covered under the school’s generous student health insurance plan.

Beginning in August, Brown’s student health insurance plan will pay for more than a dozen different sexual reassignment surgery procedures, including scrotoplasty, labiaplasty, clitoroplasty and placement of testicular prostheses, reports The Brown Daily Herald. The plan as currently configured will cover only students, not staff.

“We identified this as an important benefit for students to have access to,” Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services Jeanne Hebert wrote in an email to the school’s student newspaper. She added that the new health care benefit is part of a broader effort “to support all students” at Brown.

02/7/13 4:35 AM

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