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Aldine ISD employee tells board district quietly excluded gender-affirming care, urges reconsideration
Summary
A 17-year Aldine ISD employee told the board the district silently excluded gender-affirming health care from employee plans, leaving her with more than $10,000 in unexpected costs; she urged the board to revisit the change and engage affected staff.
Corey Bowers Holloway, an Aldine ISD employee for 17 years, told the board during public comment that the district has ‘‘silently and specifically excluded’’ gender-affirming health care from its employee plans and that the change was not communicated to staff.
Holloway said she had been working with Aetna and believed services were covered when she selected her plan, but recently learned the district’s plans now exclude that category of care. ‘‘This exclusion was never communicated in any way,’’ she said, adding that she now faces ‘‘an unexpected cost of over $10,000’’ for medically…
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