The City of Baltimore’s health insurance plan will soon cover sex reassignment surgery and other transgender services for municipal employees, bringing the city in line with surrounding jurisdictions that offer the same benefits.
The city’s five-member spending board, led by Mayor Catherine Pugh, approved the change this morning. A Board of Estimates agenda item stipulated that with their approval, Baltimore’s health care plan would now cover counseling, hormone replacement therapy and “gender conforming surgery.”
According to a table in the agenda, Baltimore County government and Public Schools, the District of Columbia, Howard County Public Schools, Montgomery and Prince George’s County government and the State of Maryland all cover “gender reassignment surgery.” Anne Arundel County’s government does not, but the county’s school system does, the table says.
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