A Friend’s Journey

A Friend’s Journey

by Katherine Alford
Morningside Meeting

 

It was four days before our son, who is transgender, was to have gender affirming surgery, and my insurance company, Aetna, informed me that it would not be covered. This was a shock, as I lived and worked in New York, where such discrimination is illegal —but because the health insurance policy of the company I worked for, Scripps Networks, had been written in Texas, this could happen.