John Smith v. Jessie K. Rasmussen, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the Iowa Department of Human Services

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• noting that ―sex reassignment surgery‖ involves ―several different surgical procedures‖ including ―breast reduction and contouring‖ and ―phalloplasty‖
• noting “the lack of consensus in the medical community” about sex-reassignment surgery
• denial of reimbursement for sex reassignment surgery proper where State Medicaid plan designated sex reassignment surgery as \cosmetic surgery\ and alternate GID treatments available
• denial of reimbursement for sex reassignment surgery proper where State Medicaid plan designated sex reassignment surgery as “cosmetic surgery’ and alternate GID treatments available
• “As did the parties during the proceedings in the district court, we will refer to Smith, in accordance with his preference, by using masculine pronouns.”
• “As did the parties during the proceedings in the district court, we will refer to Smith, in accordance with his preference, by using masculine pronouns.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).