Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and Cohen Millstein Sellers & Toll, a national civil rights law firm, announced a deal with health insurance provider Aetna to expand the insurance carrier’s medical coverage of transition-related care for transgender women.
On its website, Aetna announced it had “expanded coverage of gender-affirming surgery to include breast augmentation for transfeminine members of most of its commercial plans” and included the caveat, “subject to plan terms and other requirements.” TLDEF wrote in its press release, “According to a national study, more than half (55%) of transgender people who sought coverage for transition-related surgery in the past year were denied.” Aetna describes the announcement as “a