North Carolina and West Virginia can't deny trans health care: federal appeals court

North Carolina’s and West Virginia’s bans on coverage for gender-affirming care for certain populations are discriminatory and unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in the first appellate decision to mandate coverage by a state health plan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld lower court rulings in two separate lawsuits. North Carolina denied coverage for transgender people and dependents enrolled in the state employees’ insurance plan, while West Virginia denied it for trans Medicaid beneficiaries. The treatments were covered for, say, cisgender people with genital anomalies...