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Volume 35, Number 3

 

Articles

Labor & Employment

Transgender Inclusive Employer Health Benefits for Employees and Dependents

Currently, there is no explicit employment-related statutory requirement to offer transgender-inclusive health plans. Even in the absence of an explicit federal statutory requirement to offer trans-inclusive health plans though, employers should review their current health plans for exclusions or denials that adversely affect transgender employees in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision and the Final Rule on Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and strive towards offering trans-inclusive health plans to support transgender employees and employees with transgender dependents.