WPATH in the News - This Week's Major Stories -- Another Mixed Bag

From: "WPATH" <wpath@PROTECTED>

Subject: WPATH in the News - This Week's Major Stories -- Another Mixed Bag

Date: June 27th 2018

Starbucks and WPATH Move to Improve Access to Trans-specific Health Care

This week's big story in virtually every type of media is Starbucks company's announcement that they will offer ALL medically necessary services through their health benefits program for ALL members of their group plan. Starbucks is one of the few (and this is a generous estimate: it may be the ONLY one of the world's) large retail chains that offer health benefits even to part-time workers. We offer stories from two sources about this below.

If one looks at the comment sections in various news outlets about this story, the same arguments that we have always heard are being raised again in response to this news: It's too expensive, and it will raise the cost of insurance for everyone. And there are the comedians who think this will be a great opportunity for them to get their nose jobs and hair plugs, etc. And there will probably be some people who will refuse to patronize Starbucks now because they don't want to have to risk seeing a transgender worker.

Nevertheless, Starbucks' announcement is a tremendous advance for transgender people. WPATH's team of consultants who worked with Starbucks--Drs. Randi Ettner, Fred Ettner, Loren Schecter, and Jamison Green, and our intrepid Executive Director of Education and Development, Donna Kelly, worked with the Benefits leadership at Starbucks to define the necessary procedures, and prepare the Starbucks team to explain why these treatments were necessary and important for trans people.

We are thrilled that Starbucks is proud of this accomplishment, and that they are willing to proudly announce it to the world.

--Jamison Green, PhD, Communications Director

WPATH In The News

them. • Jun 26 03:23 pm

Culture Starbucks Just Adopted the Most Comprehensive Trans Health Policy in the World The transgender coverage policy at Starbucks is a direct parallel to WPATH’s international recommendations for trans healthcare. By Mary Emily O'Hara

After a year of working in tandem with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), Starbucks has announced...

The Advocate • Aryn Plax • Jun 26 11:22 am

Starbucks Expands Transgender Health Care Benefits

president of WPATH, collaborated with Brock and Crawford on the benefits package. Starbucks was the first company ever to ask WPATH...

Publimetro • Jun 23 12:13 pm

La OMS saca la transexualidad como una enfermedad mental, pero la cataloga como incongruencia de género

a la presión ejercida por la hoy denominada the world professional association for transgender health (wpath). LO MÁS VISTO...

In this article, a trans activist in Mexico explains that the WHO's shift in ICD-11 classification from Transsexualism in the Mental and Behavioral Health chapter to Gender Incongruence in the new chapter on Conditions Related to Sexual Health is still discriminatory and harmful. The article also claims as "Fact" that WPATH was responsible for the appearance of Transsexualism in the DSM III (1980). WPATH (or its predecessor organization, HBIGDA) did not engineer this development but is also not surprising to see such sentiments expressed, when trans people experience so much pain, frustration, and animosity in their lives.

Human Rights Watch • Jun 21 01:56 pm

Human Rights Watch Submission to the government and parliament of the Republic of Serbia

WPATH Identity Recognition Statement

Transgender Health

The Asbury Park Press • Lindy Washburn • Jun 27 03:35 am

First operation in New Jersey creates penis for transgender man

in Livingston in February by surgeons from the Rutgers Center for Transgender Health, a newly formed group that includes psychiatrists,...

The Washington Post • Alex Barasch • Jun 27 03:00 am

Biology is not destiny

debunked claims that trans people are unfit to serve and that gender dysphoria — the mismatch between a person’s natal sex and gender...

Cincinnati Enquirer • Marilyn Icsman • Jun 26 07:24 pm

Transgender students: Ohio bill would require teachers to report children who may be transgender to parents

. Brinkman said a child's struggles with mental health surround gender dysphoria should be "a consideration that parents make," but...

WABI-TV 5 • Emily Tadlock • Jun 26 01:50 pm

Transgender health services now available in Belfast

BELFAST, Maine (WABI) A new transgender health program is expanding into Belfast. Belfast Family Planning is now offering in-clinic...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo - New York State • Jun 24 11:51 am

Governor Cuomo Announces Health Care Protections for Transgender New Yorkers

statewide regulations to prohibit harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender identity, transgender status or gender dysphoria....

Daily Caller News Foundation • Grace Carr • Jun 22 09:48 am

Amazon Issues Guidelines On Transgender Employee Inclusion In The UK

The guidelines address matters concerning bathroom privileges for employees with gender dysphoria as well as dress code standards for...

The Daily Beast • Tim Teeman • Jun 22 02:26 am

ISIS Is Gone. But Iraq Is Still Hell for LGBT+ People

are not legal and so make transitioning even more dangerous. Gender confirmation surgery is not permitted by the law, and if people...

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