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Board to consider resolution reaffirming city support for medically necessary gender dysphoria benefits
Summary
Supervisor Farrell introduced a resolution, co-sponsored by Supervisor Sheehy, to reaffirm San Francisco's support for providing medically necessary gender dysphoria treatment as part of city benefits and to urge the Department of Public Health to continue offering those benefits if federal protections change.
Supervisor Farrell introduced a resolution on April 18 reaffirming the City and County of San Francisco's support for medically necessary gender dysphoria treatment as a covered benefit for city health plans. The resolution, introduced with Supervisor Sheehy as a co-sponsor, was framed in response to a federal preliminary injunction affecting anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act.
Farrell told the Board that San Francisco was an early adopter of transgender health benefits and highlighted local health-system actions: she said the city's Health Service Board "unanimously approved a policy statement" to continue recognizing medically necessary gender dysphoria treatment. Farrell said the resolution aligns local policy with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's position urging elimination of transgender exclusions from insurance policies.
The resolution seeks to put the Board on record in support of continuing to provide medically necessary gender-dysphoria benefits and urges the Department of Public Health to maintain those benefits if federal protections are removed. The item was introduced for Board consideration; transcript evidence shows the resolution was presented but no final roll-call adoption occurred on April 18.
