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While members of the transgender community at Harvard are happy that top surgery will now be covered, many agree that the change should have been made long ago.
While Harvard’s insurance plan has covered sex hormones since 2006, a new policy adopted in January incorporates coverage for top surgery, meaning mastectomies for transgender men (women transitioning to men) and breast augmentation for transgender women (men transitioning to women).
While the change is greatly appreciated within Harvard’s transgender community, finding full treatment and acceptance from others remain significant challenges.
While the APA is currently considering a proposal to change the classification of “gender identity disorder” to “gender incongruence” in the next edition of the manual—which will be published in May 2013—most insurance policies...
While Sensing also agrees that transgender should not be classified as a disorder, he says that having access to the coverage is more important than the terminology used to describe it.