Officials refused to change the department’s insurance plan, citing money concerns. Then, they spent 40 times the cost of the surgery in legal fees.
Sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange came out as transgender to her employer, the Houston County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia, in 2017. She’d worked there for over a decade. At the time, her therapist had diagnosed Lange with gender dysphoria, noting that she was experiencing “significant distress” from not being able to live out her true gender.
In 2018, Lange took out several thousand dollars from her savings and retirement funds, according to ProPublica, to pay out-of-pocket for chest surgery. But she needed over $25,000 for her next transition surgery, which she couldn’t afford on her own. When she raised the concern with her employer, they reportedly refused to update the county’s health insurance plan to include coverage of gender-affirming care, including the surgery Lange was seeking.
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