Massachusetts leads the way in caring for the health needs of trans and gender-diverse people - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In 2010, the Affordable Care Act was passed into law, including Section 1557, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in covered health programs or activities.
50% : In 2014, the Commonwealth issued a bulletin prohibiting discrimination in insurance based on gender identity or gender dysphoria.
44% : Since the Supreme Court's 2020 Bostock decision, which prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of an employee's sexual orientation or gender identity, the federal government and advocates have pushed for Section 1557(a) to cover gender as it does sex assigned at birth.

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