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# Trans Alaska residents suing state over medical care battle
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-alaska-residents-suing-state-over-medical-care-battle/
- Published: 2020-10-09T08:09:08.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-08T15:06:38.000Z
- Description: Three transgender Alaska residents – Swan Being, Robin Black and Austin Reed – are suing the US state for denying them medical care.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, LGBTQ, Trans Rights, Transgender

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Three transgender **Alaska** residents – **Swan Being**, **Robin Black** and **Austin Reed** – are suing the **US** state for denying them medical care, as Alaska is one of six states that explicitly bans insurance-related coverage of transition-related healthcare. The citizens have filed a lawsuit against the **Ten** and its director **Adam Crum** on the basis Alaska’s current regulations infringe on the Affordable Care Act’s non-discrimination guideline.

The 22-page[ complaint](https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.akd.61355/gov.uscourts.akd.61355.1.0%5F1.pdf?ref=scenemag.co.uk) argues: *“The regulation is grounded in sex stereotypes, discomfort with gender nonconformity, and moral disapproval of people who are transgender”.* It also states to deny trans people appropriate healthcare conflicts with the “*medical consensus that gender confirming medical care is the only safe and effective medical treatment for gender dysphoria.”*

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Swan Being, a 71-year-old trans woman, was the first to file a complaint after she claims she was denied medically necessary care five years after she began transitioning. According to the **[Pew Charitable Trusts](https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/07/17/states-diverge-on-transgender-health-care?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**, Alaska, **Tennessee**, **Nebraska**, **Iowa**, **Missouri** and **Georgia** have regulations in place to prevent trans people from accessing gender-affirming healthcare, despite **ObamaCare** [regulations](https://obamacarefacts.com/no-discrimination/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) which aim to prevent discrimination based on gender identity.