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Each transgender person experiences the process of transition in a different manner—some prefer to avoid medical intervention and others seek the full range of possible treatments, from genital reconstruction to hair removal.
“Transgender exclusions therefore deny medical coverage to the people who need it the most—people who are unable to afford care on their own,” says Lewis, a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School.
Lewis says he believes that no one should be denied medical care out of ignorance and outdated prejudice.
“This is overdue,” says the senior. “People need access to medical supplies to feel whole, and Harvard is finally catching up in acknowledging that people who identify as trans have medical needs, and they’re meeting those needs.?...
Although designating this “conflict of body and mind” as a medical condition is necessary to receive medical treatment, many transgender people are uncomfortable that this conflict is classified as a disorder in the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic...