lead story - Transgender employees sue Florida over state's trans health care ban

Tim Fitzsimons
NBC News

Ocala, FL

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Delaware - No place for discrimination in health care or insurance industry

Trinidad Navarro
Delaware Business Times

Dover, DE

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Connecticut - Middlesex Health, seven other Connecticut health care providers named LGBTQ health care equality leaders

Kathleen McWilliams
Hartford Courant

Middletown, CT

Middlesex Hospital

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lead story - Being Uninsured Poses Unique Health Care Challenges For The Transgender Community

Deepa Bharath
JPR

Jefferson, OR

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Georgia - In Georgia’s Bible Belt, health care for transgender people is often out of reach

Samantha Max
The Telegraph

Augusta, GA

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Alaska - Lawsuit challenges Alaska Medicaid policy denying transgender-related health care coverage

Renee Gross
KTOO

Homer, AK

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Wisconsin - Despite Strides, Disparities In Health Care Remain For LGBTQ Population

Mary Kate McCoy
WPR

Madison, WI

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civil rights - UA transgender policy hits home; worker presses system on health care as Texas case resumes

Jaime Adame
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Fayetteville, AR

Pritchard House

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lead story - Some Americans are being denied 'life-saving' health care. It's because they are transgender

Kristin Lam
USA Today

Agoura Hills, CA

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Alabama - Alabama health care fails transgender students

Leah Goggins
The Crimson White

University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL

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Missouri - Transgender community rallies around need for health care

Jeremy Johnson
Missourian

Columbia, MO (1869)

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lead story - ‘How can you be raped?’ Doctor’s words to transgender in India an example of the ‘transphobia’ that stops many getting health care

Priti Satian
South China Morning Post

Kolkata, India

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civil rights - HRC Opposes Kavanaugh, Trump’s Pick to Undermine LGBTQ Rights, Reproductive Rights and Health Care

Charlotte Clymer
HRC

Brett Kavanaugh

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civil rights - Health care new front for transgender rights under Trump

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
WGBH

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

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On Sex Discrimination In Health Care, The Pendulum Swings With Severity

Kevin Costello, Maryanne Tomazic
Health Affairs

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Bangladesh - Bangladesh: Transgender Men Fear for Their Safety

Staff
Human Rights Watch

scene in Bangladesh

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Democratic candidates for Montana's U.S. House seat talk health care, other issues in Helena

Holly K. Michels
Independent Record

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ezs note:  Montana residents - it may seem small, but your vote is just as important as any other - no more, no less.  Please remember to vote, and if you haven't registered yet, please do so NOW.  

Political tussle over gender surgery for trans kids may delay health care for low-income kids in Pa.

Rita Giordano
Daily Inquirer

State Capitol

Harrisburg, PA

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Trump taps Delawarean to lead military health care amid transgender controversy

Karl Baker
delawareonline

Colonel Dr. Dean Winslow (Ret.)

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Transgender health care targeted in crusade to undo ACA

Shefali Luthra
CPTV

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ezs note:  Even though you might not have plans to get surgery right away, or you can get it done independently, think about your neighbor who isn't as fortunate.  Please call your Congressperson and urge her/him to fully fund the Affordable Care Act.  If you aren't sure who your Congressperson is, click www.house.gov.  Put your ZIP code in the upper right corner, and you should be directed to the correct Congressperson.