Georgia County Spent $1.2 Million to Deny One Employee Gender-Affirming Care

When a transgender sheriff’s deputy in Houston County, Georgia, requested that the department’s health insurance plan cover gender-affirming surgeries, local officials refused to cover them, claiming it was too expensive. In the years since, however, officials have spent more than a million dollars of taxpayer money fighting a federal lawsuit brought by the deputy — far more than it would have…

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