California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) Reminds Insurers Not to Exclude SRS

The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) has sent a letter instructing insurers to review their policies and identify and correct any exclusionary language that would prohibit a transgender person from similar procedures available to non transgender persons.

These procedures include transitional costs and Sexual Reassignment surgery. Insurers have 90 days to submit the corrections for review.

Source: Transgender Law Center "The DMHC directive applies to HMOs and PPOs regulated by the Department of Managed Health Care. In 2012, the Department of Insurance issued non-discrimination regulations with similar protections for health insurance regulated by the Department of Insurance. Combined, this means that all California health plans and insurers cannot arbitrarily deny medically necessary services provided to other policy holders or members simply because the patient is transgender.

The newly issued DMHC letter instructs health plans to revise current plan documents to remove exclusions and limitations related to gender transition. For transgender people, how and when they transition is typically a private decision made with their doctor. The American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians have all deemed transition-related care to be medically necessary for transgender patients."

Individuals with questions about today’s announcement or other questions about their health coverage should contact the Department of Managed Health Care’s Help Center at 1-888-466-2219 / http://www.HealthHelp.ca.gov.

The California Department of Insurance also offers consumer assistance at 800-927-HELP / http://www.insurance.ca.gov/contact-us/

Transgender Californian’s who experience discrimination or have legal questions should contact Transgender Law Center at 417.865.0176 x306/ http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org

For more information or interview requests please contact Mark Snyder, Communications Manager, 415.865.0176 x310, .mark@transgenderlawcenter.org

Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org

Vatican City Jack Offs ( Maybe the pope?) are Stealing Transgender XXX Porn

I'm not going to bash anyone for watching porn, even porn they didn't pay for >until now that is. Most all of us have accidentally on purpose looked at images like those at least briefly, for a few hours. So what's the harm? There's a few people in the Vatican City who are watching the porno transgender porn. But who could it be?

I don't know, maybe one of the 58 cardinals, 293 clergy with status as members of pontifical  pornographic representations or 62 other members of the clergy. Maybe one of the 101 members of the Swiss Guard or the remaining 43 are other lay persons? It could have been any of the nearly 100 percent male citizens of Vatican City.

Here's the Rub

After these self righteous pious assholes made me cry condemning me for being who god made last Christmas eve they went back to their bedrooms and jacked off to stolen pornographic movies of people just like me. THATS FUCKED UP.

I am always interested in reaching more of our diverse global trans and allied community so I often research who is visiting planetransgender and what key words were used to find our blog. Without fail searches from religiously oppressive countries like Saudi Arabia, and the Vatican include the pejorative "tranny" and "sex". Those visits are always short because they don't care about us, they just want to masturbate. They quickly leave and head to a porn site.

Now I'm going to extrapolate. Get your head outta the gutter, I said extrapolate not masturbate. Sheesh. OK so I said I wasn't going to condemn anyone for watching porn 'until now' right? Well, I'm calling these Christians out. Not just because they condemn us but because the very same people who star in these movies, the ones they condemn, age and when we age, people stop filming them and they end up, god forbid, like me, on the streets. Prostituting myself. Gang and drug dependent. Alone. Beaten and hopeless.

I'm not implying any of the actresses they were watching had life experiences like mine but this is my 2,002 post since 2007 and I can't venture how many of those articles were about alienated trans people murdered while engaging in or being in the vicinity of gang activity, illegal drugs and known areas of prostitution.

With out hope.

How many of them like myself only needed that one break to make it? How many of our brothers and sisters became so saddened by these Vatican Assholes trans bashing us they turned away from the lord? Forever is a very long time.

And these Vatican city jack offs could care fucking less. Like I said they don't visit web sites to learn who they are condemning. They could care less. Assholes.

One of the actresses had a different and valid complaint about the Vatican's religious duplicity. Tiffany Starr released the following statement Monday evening on the Daily Dot:

I have always identified as a Transsexual Woman and got into porn to be able to express my open views of sex. I consider myself bi-sexual but really enjoy women and other transsexual women. My scene with Sheena Shaw was steamy, affectionate and raunchy so I can see why whomever at the Vatican watched picked us. Porn isn’t as taboo as many people try and make it out to be. For someone to know what they enjoy and pleases them isn’t taboo but a great form of self expression. I am sure Christians feel it was sinful as part of their morals but I think its great that this person was taking time to enjoy himself. What I don’t agree with is downloading it from a tube site. Tube Sites steal the work of producers and stars who work and spend money to produce them only to have them illegally downloaded from a site, thus “thou shall not steal”. So as much as I am pleased that he enjoys my body of work, no pun attended, I wish it was done the correct way. So with that being said I must show my compassion and charity work and if the person himself wants to email me tstiffanystarrxxx69@yahoo.com then I would be happy to send him a free autographed DVD and a personal thank you.