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The 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of Iowa, and Nixon Peabody LLP filed an administrative challenge on behalf of EerieAnna Good and Carol Beal to an outdated Iowa regulation that denies Iowans who are transgender Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery.

Iowa鈥檚 Medicaid program provides coverage for medically necessary care for a broad range of medical conditions. However, Iowa denied transgender individuals Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery to treat gender dysphoria, a medical condition only experienced by people who are transgender, even though Medicaid coverage is provided for the same surgical procedures for other medical conditions. This discriminatory ban on coverage has no basis in medical science and has been uniformly condemned by leading medical organizations. Our case challenged the ban as a violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Act (鈥淚CRA鈥�) and the Iowa Constitution鈥檚 equality guarantees.

EerieAnna and Carol are two women who the Iowa Department of Human Services denied Medicaid coverage for gender affirming surgery because of the Department鈥檚 regulatory ban on providing such coverage. The 老澳门开奖结果 assisted these women in challenging that denial of coverage in two cases that were later consolidated before one district judge. In June 2018, the district court ruled that this ban on coverage violated the EerieAnna and Carol鈥檚 rights under the ICRA and the Iowa Constitution.

The Iowa Department of Human Services appealed the district court鈥檚 ruling. In March 2019, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the ban on coverage for gender affirming surgery violated the Iowa Civil Rights Act and affirmed the district court鈥檚 ruling on that basis.

The Cooperating attorneys in the case include: F. Thomas Hecht, Tina B. Solis and Seth A. Horvath of Nixon Peabody LLP; Rita Bettis of the 老澳门开奖结果 of Iowa, and John Knight of the 老澳门开奖结果.