What I've heard so far about excluding care for trans folks from the health care bill is this article in the Advocate. There was another article about it somewhere with more details that said that some republicans were trying to get this same amendment attached to the bill in the Senate but I can't find it right now. As written it would exclude all trans folks. It hasn't happened yet, but it still could.
The other article you mention's the one that I posted a link/excerpt from w/in the past week....it's on Politico.com, and the thing is that it didn't have any sponsors yet (and therefore hasn't been added on as a rider) but social conservatives were/are trying to sell Republicans on it to add it on as an amendment to general healthcare reform legislation -- basically trying to slip a(nother) worm into the apple, assuming that people won't dare reject the whole apple on account of it having an itty-bitty worm aimed specifically at an itty-bitty and conveniently-misunderstood minority.
There are no exclusions on care for trans people in the House bill. What will happen in the Senate is still up in the air.
Regarding the House bill, the mention of gender identity and sexual orientation in the definition of disparity populations is incredibly important, because it is the clearest, most unambiguous statement that the government believes LGBT people exist and that our health care needs are important. Stimulating improved data collection on LGBT health disparities is a critical piece of directing attention, funding, and programming towards the LGBT community.
This website is far from perfect (especially because of its total erasure of the T...), but it clearly lays out the reasons why data collection is so important for our community.
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Regarding the House bill, the mention of gender identity and sexual orientation in the definition of disparity populations is incredibly important, because it is the clearest, most unambiguous statement that the government believes LGBT people exist and that our health care needs are important. Stimulating improved data collection on LGBT health disparities is a critical piece of directing attention, funding, and programming towards the LGBT community.
This website is far from perfect (especially because of its total erasure of the T...), but it clearly lays out the reasons why data collection is so important for our community.
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