The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in August sent a letter to insurance companies notifying them that “chemical and surgical modification of an individual’s sex traits through medical interventions (to include ‘gender transition’ services) will no longer be covered” in 2026 under federal employee health plans, with the exception of counseling services and those who are “mid-treatment.”
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“Starting today, untold numbers of federal employees and their families will be left out to dry at the hands of a shameless administration hell-bent on targeting the transgender community,” HRC Foundation President Kelley Robinson insisted. “This policy is not about cost or care – it is about driving transgender people and people with transgender spouses, children, and dependents out of the federal workforce.”
“That is discrimination, plain and simple, and the HRC Foundation refuses to let it stand without a fight,” Robinson wrote.
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One federal employee that is part of the lawsuit plainly stated the coverage was necessary for the worker’s daughter to receive a puberty blocker implant and eventually, “Hormone Replacement Therapy.”
In June 2025, the Supreme Court allowed Tennessee to uphold its law banning transgender procedures for minors, and several more states have since issued their own restrictions. Even many countries, including the United Kingdom, have indefinitely banned the use of puberty-blocking drugs for minors after recommendations from experts that warned of an “unacceptable safety risk.”
* Original Article:
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/02/federal-workers-start-new-year-off-by-suing-trump-over-end-of-taxpayer-funded-sex-changes/