Posted on 11/12/2026 8:31:40 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Agroup of transgender federal employees have asked a federal judge to halt the Trump administration’s bid to ban coverage of gender-affirming care by the federal government’s two employer-sponsored insurance programs, in advance of the new plan year in January.
On President Trump’s first day in office in 2025, he issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to cease acknowledging the concept of gender identity as well as the existence of transgender and other nonbinary individuals.
In the intervening months, the Trump administration has sought to purge transgender Americans from the military service branches, halt gender affirming care for federal prisoners and house them based upon their sex assigned at birth, as well as pressure private sector health care providers from offering gender affirming care.
And the Office of Personnel Management instructed insurance carriers last year to cease covering gender affirming medical care, including hormone replacement therapy and surgical interventions, through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and Postal Service Health Benefits Program. A case-by-case exception policy was in place during 2026 provided an enrollee was “mid-treatment,” but OPM ended that policy for the 2027 plan year and instituted a categorical ban.
In August, a group of transgender federal workers filed a class-action lawsuit aiming to roll back the insurance coverage policy and require FEHB and PSHB insurers to cover treatments like HRT and gender-affirming surgeries as they did prior to Trump’s return to office. Last week, the plaintiffs asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to certify the class in their case and to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the ban ahead of its full implementation next year.
“In a deeply cruel and discriminatory manner, OPM has issued a blanket ban on insurance coverage for transgender beneficiaries’ hormonal and surgical care for ...”
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Somehow left out.
“Experts say between 40,000 and 60,000 transgender federal workers have been or will be impacted by the Trump administration’s effort to ban coverage of hormone therapies and other gender-affirming treatments.”
Oops. Not left out.
What the Holy Hell??? “40,000 and 60,000 transgender federal workers”
Federal employment causes people to crave chopadickoffame operations. If they don’t lose their nuts, they’ll kill themselves.
Okay....Do it...
Okay....Do it...
Do what? Cut their nuts off, or refuse to cut their nuts off so that they kill themselves?
Eenie meanie minie moe...
Does the federal insurance also include the Addadictome operation?
Good question. Would Addadictome “men” then want to try out for pro football? Would they survive?
The inmates run the asylum.
A group of transgender transvestite federal employees have asked a federal judge to halt the Trump administration’s bid to ban coverage of gender-affirming denying care by the federal government’s two employer-sponsored insurance programs, in advance of the new plan year in January.
On President Trump’s first day in office in 2025, he issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to cease acknowledging the concept of gender identity as well as the existence of transgender transvestite and other nonbinary individuals.
In the intervening months, the Trump administration has sought to purge transgender transvestite Americans from the military service branches, halt gender affirming denying care for federal prisoners and house them based upon their sex assigned at birth, as well as pressure private sector health care providers from offering gender affirming denying care.
And the Office of Personnel Management instructed insurance carriers last year to cease covering gender affirming denying medical care, including hormone replacement therapy and surgical interventions, through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and Postal Service Health Benefits Program. A case-by-case exception policy was in place during 2026 provided an enrollee was “mid-treatment,” but OPM ended that policy for the 2027 plan year and instituted a categorical ban.
In August, a group of transgender transvestite federal workers filed a class-action lawsuit aiming to roll back the insurance coverage policy and require FEHB and PSHB insurers to cover treatments like HRT and gender-affirming denying surgeries as they did prior to Trump’s return to office. Last week, the plaintiffs asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to certify the class in their case and to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the ban ahead of its full implementation next year.
“In a deeply cruel and discriminatory manner, OPM has issued a blanket ban on insurance coverage for transgender transvestite beneficiaries’ hormonal and surgical care for gender transition in Plan Year 2027,” attorneys for the employees wrote. “This court’s intervention is necessary to prevent certain harm to plaintiffs and other class members.”
The federal workers allege that the ban on hormone therapy and gender-affirming denying surgical interventions violate Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans workplace discrimination on the basis of sex. That’s in part because hormone therapies, like testosterone injections and surgeries like penile prostheses and breast augmentations remain covered under FEHBP and PSHBP for cisgender beneficiaries.
The plaintiffs warned that the cost of hormone replacement therapy is prohibitive without insurance coverage, and that feds will be forced to ration their medication or forgo it altogether, something that can have dire consequences.
“Rationing can cause debilitating symptoms, such as intrusive thoughts, mental and emotional upheaval and withdrawal,” they wrote. “Moreover, both plaintiffs no longer produce sex hormones. Going without hormone replacement therapy therefor harms plaintiffs’ physiology in many ways, including the risk of loss of bone density.”
And in some cases, the ban on gender affirming denying care has prevented employees from receiving needed follow-up treatments from prior to the ban. One plaintiff described a painful lesion that developed following her gender-affirming denying surgery, but her FEHBP insurer won’t cover the procedure that would allow it to permanently heal due to OPM’s ban.
“Ms. Coe’s treating surgeon diagnosed the problem and recommended surgery to permanently correct it,” the plaintiffs wrote. “She has been unable to obtain that treatment because his practice will not perform the surgery without insurance coverage. She understands that the procedure could cost tens of thousands of dollars, and she ahs no means in place to cover that expense. The result is continued pain from ordinary activities while the condition her doctor recommends repairing remains untreated.”
The motion to block OPM’s ban on gender-affirming denying care noted that the administration has not relied on any medical reasoning or studies in its decision. And it highlights a litany of studies that conclude both hormone therapy and gender-affirming denying surgical procedures improve transgender transvestite people’s lives.
“In a randomized clinical trial of adults seeking testosterone therapy, those who began treatment immediately experienced significantly greater reductions in gender dysphoria, depression and suicidality within three months than those assigned to wait,” they wrote. “[And a] study of nearly 20,000 transgender transvestite adults who desired surgery found that those who had undergone one or more gender-affirming denying procedures at least two years earlier had significantly lower adjusted odds of severe psychological distress and suicidal ideation than those who had not received surgery.”
It takes perfectly healthy, functioning tissue and renders it non-functional and disabled from its original purposes.
Part of the “great reset”. Keep people from breeding, so nobody has to kill them.
Jap-animation of Gamura the Flying Turtle is also about it. The monsters eat some kids, and suddenly multiply at an exelerated rate, destroying the rif-raf of humanity while the elitist conspirators who feed them the kids start the population over again somewhere in Africa. Gamura the flying turtle saves the day, by doing battle with the monsters.
Great reset is in the air, like Strontium 90 since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Either way...I care nothing about these freaks...
Either way...I care nothing about these freaks...
The Great Reset will likely take a lot of us out with it.
It will be for our posterity.
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