Court decides for trans -wife: health insurance must pay hair removal!

Court decides for trans -wife: health insurance must pay hair removal!

A highly sensational judgment of the Work and Social Court of Vienna is currently causing a conversation: a woman born as a male who suffers from gender dysphoria has received right in the dispute with her health insurance. According to Press , the statutory health insurance must now cover the cost of removing Bartwuchs. The plaintiff had argued in court that the beard growth massively impaired her gender identity and caused psychological stress.

The health insurance company had vehemently opposed to assuming costs, with the argument that even biological women would not be granted any reimbursement of hair removal. But the court saw it differently: "If the applicant had to shave every day, she would show her every day that she was in the wrong gender," said the judge. This view also found in another report by the