The Christian Post – Iowa taxpayers will be forced to fund gender reassignment surgery through Medicaid after the state Supreme Court ruled that such procedures are “medically necessary” for transgender individuals.
On Friday, Iowa’s Supreme Court ruled that [so called] transgender people [SIC] can now use Medicaid for “gender-affirming surgeries,” overturning the state’s previously held administrative code regarding Medicaid, which classifies transition-related surgeries as “cosmetic, reconstructive or plastic surgery” and explicitly bans “surgeries for the purpose of sex reassignment,” the Des Moines Register reports.
The justices agreed with a district judge’s ruling that the rules contradicted protections in the Iowa Civil Rights Act, which added gender identity to the state’s list of protected classes.
