New York state is not obligated to pay for gender reassignment surgery for a Medicaid recipient, even though it provided coverage for individual procedures that are necessary preliminaries to the change, a federal judge in Buffalo has determined.

Western District Judge Charles J. Siragusa in Rochester ruled that Morgana Ravenwood’s constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were not violated by the denial of coverage.

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