Transgender woman files complaint against Springfield over health coverage

A transgender woman has filed a complaint with the Illinois Department of Human Rights against the city of Springfield alleging its health coverage plan denied her medication for a condition she has known as “gender dysphoria.”Katherine Holt of Springfield worked at Lincoln Library as manager of access services from February to November.During that time Holt claimed that her prescriptions were excluded from insurance and that she had to pay out-of-pocket expenses for […]