Being transgender is a mental disorder, Israeli insurance company says
An insurance company has refused to finance a mastectomy for a transgender man, claiming that being transgender is a mental illness. A transgender man in his 20s, from the central region, underwent mastectomy a year and a half ago. But when he asked the Ayalon Insurance company for a refund, he was told his policy does not cover mental disorders or psychiatric treatments. “My classification as transgender has nothing to do with mental disorder,” he told Haaretz. “This is an unfair and wrong generalization.”
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