Gender-Related Medical Care Coverage & Rights
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-03-31 — Transgender Health Care Access Act: cross-connection with transgender-lgbtq-health-rights: Both address access to and coverage of gender-related medical care; HR2487 sits on the expansion side of this policy debate alongside coverage-focused proposals. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-16 — To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provide benefits for sex-rejecting procedures to provide benefits for items and services to address the harms caused by sex-rejecting procedures and to restore healthy human form and functioning, to the greatest extent practicable.: cross-connection with sex-rejecting-procedure-restoration-coverage: Both concern insurance coverage rules for gender-related medical procedures; this proposal frames coverage in terms of restorative/detransition care as a conditional obligation on plans covering transition procedures. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-16 — A bill to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provide benefits for sex-rejecting procedures to provide benefits for items and services to address the harms caused by sex-rejecting procedures and to restore healthy human form and functioning, to the greatest extent possible.: Bill introduced requiring group health plans and insurers that cover gender transition procedures (termed ‘sex-rejecting procedures’ in the bill text) to also cover items and services addressing harms from those procedures and restoring healthy human form and functioning to the greatest extent possible — a novel federal insurance-parity mandate targeting detransition/restorative care coverage. (novelty: 3)