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Decades of experience with the WPATH Standards of Care show that gender transitions and related care are accepted, good medical practice and effective treatment.Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants worked with its fully-insured employee health plans to provide coverage for medically necessary treatments for transgender employees and dependents, in addition to grossing up employees' income to offset imputed income taxes from domestic partner health insurance.Credit Suisse's "Open Perspectives" program was designed to educate LGBT MBA students about being open in their careers within the financial services sector and, more specifically, how Credit Suisse's culture supports LGBT employees. In 1994, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors included "gender identity" in the non-discrimination language of its administrative code. The report recommending this non-discrimination language had also recommended that the Health Services System Board "modify the City Plan to cover transsexual treatment and procedures."
The City and County of San Francisco Transgender Health Benefit Program has proven to be appropriately accessed and undeniably more affordable than other, often routinely covered, procedures.
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