PHOENIX — A state lawmaker from Surprise wants to require insurance companies to pay the medical costs for those who want to “detransition” from their sex-change therapy and changes.
Sen. Janae Shamp said she believes at least some individuals, particularly children, are convinced they need to change their gender. And Shamp, a registered operating room nurse, said that performed, at least in part, because there are medical codes doctors can use to bill insurance companies.
What’s missing, she said, are any codes for the medical procedures to reverse all that. And the result, she said, is there is no way for doctors to get reimbursed by the insurers.
Shamp brought California resident Chloe Cole to a press conference Thursday to detail how she believes both she and her parents were misled by doctors into approving not just hormonal treatments for her when she was just 13 but gave the go-ahead to have her breasts removed two years later. Only afterwards, Cole said, did she realize that was a mistake.