Nine days ago I wrote about the fraternity brothers at Emerson College who were raising money for a transman pledge's top surgery. Ultimately the brothers raised $20,918 of their goal of $2,000.
There is now more recent news. Administrators at Emerson College took it upon themselves to contact the student insurer, Aetna, to "ask for clarification" of the initial denial of coverage. Transgender benefits were supposed to be part of the college's policy with Aetna since 2006. According to the college, Emerson was one of the first colleges in the nation to remove exclusion of transgender benefits from its policy.
The conversations that followed led to the discovery that the policy language had inadvertently not been updated by Aetna on their internal documents. This inaccuracy led to the rejection of coverage.
--Emerson College statement
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