The A-C-L-U of Iowa will go to court to try to lift the state’s ban on Medicaid coverage for transgender surgical care. Joe Freund is a family practice doctor in Des Moines who treats transgender patients.
The plaintiffs in the case are two transgender women. Eerie Anna Good lives in the Quad Cities and Carol Ann Beal is from northwest Iowa. Beal says she began taking hormone therapy when she was 14 and has lived as a woman since then. Beal says she’s joined the legal battle because someone needed to be a trailblazer.
Beal has an appeal pending at the administrative level of state government. Once that process has run its course, the A-C-L-U will take its lawsuit to district court.
