California Expands State Health Insurance to Include Sex Change Surgeries for Illegal Immigrants

 

The state of California has announced an expansion of its health insurance programs to provide coverage for sex change procedures for illegal immigrants.

For over a decade, Democrats have called for free health care for illegal aliens in the United States.

Democrats were open to this idea back in 2009.

In 2015, then-Governor Jerry Brown enacted legislation that enabled illegal immigrant children to be eligible for Medi-Cal.

In 2018, California Democrat Gavin Newsom campaigned to pay for universal healthcare for all illegal aliens.

In 2019, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law to give taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens ages 19 to 25.

In 2022, Newsome proposed a budget that would pay for all illegals to have free health care.

And now, starting this month, over 700,000 illegal aliens between the ages of 26 and 49 will also be eligible for health insurance.

Medi-Cal, the state version of the low-income federal Medicaid program, will cover the healthcare costs for foreign nationals.

The Daily Caller reported that California’s state health care program, Medi-Cal, covers sex change surgeries and hormones for illegal immigrants, according to a memo first circulated in May 2022. This expansion is part of the state’s broader efforts to provide healthcare regardless of immigration status.

The memo states, “Gender affirming care refers to treatment provided to address incongruence between a person’s gender assigned at birth and their gender identity. Gender affirming care is a covered Medi-Cal benefit when medically necessary. Requests for gender affirming care should be from specialists experienced in providing culturally competent care to transgender and gender diverse individuals and should use nationally recognized guidelines.”

“Medical necessity is assessed and services shall be recommended by treating licensed mental health professionals and physicians and surgeons experienced in treating patients with incongruence between their gender identity and gender assigned at birth,” the memo adds.