Pirates Storm Kaiser for Transgender Equality in Health Plan: While election debates on healthcare rage across the country, SF Pride at Work/HAVOQ is taking the fight against discrimination in healthcare back to Kaiser’s Oakland campus after disrupting Kaiser’s float in the Pride Parade last June. The healthcare giant has refused to remove discriminatory exemptions in [...]
Local and National Trans-Healthcare Victories this Summer: Affordable Care Act Expands Healthcare Rights of LGBT Communities: The Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that the prohibition on sex-based discrimination under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes gender identity. This means this means that any hospital, clinic or healthcare program receiving federal funding cannot [...]
SF Pride at Work is spear-heading a letter campaign to show Kaiser that their members and community support an end to discrimination and full healthcare coverage for transgender patients. Kaiser members, unions and other organizations can participate. If your union or non-profit organization would consider writing a letter contact us for support and suggested text.If [...]
Published on Alternet / By Alyssa Figueroa July 19, 2012 | The steel barricades rarely get this much action. A rainbow sea of onlookers presses up against them, trying to find a good view of the marching spectacle. It’s the San Francisco Pride Parade, and everyone is ready for a show. As the famed Dykes on [...]
How does Kaiser discriminate against trans people? Kaiser and many major healthcare providers discriminate against transgender people by refusing to cover medically necessary treatment sought by patients and recommended by doctors. Every health care provider has a list of exclusions: products and services they will not cover under any circumstances. Kaiser includes healthcare needs of [...]
What do we want? We want full and fair healthcare access for all people. Did you know that Kaiser and many major healthcare providers discriminate against transgender people by refusing to cover medically necessary treatment sought by patients and recommended by doctors? I thought Kaiser was great for the LGBT community? Kaiser has [...]
Community Not Commodity: Pride celebrations in the month of June originated from the 1969 Stonewall riots, an uprising of some of the most oppressed people in the queer community against police brutality. Now the SF Pride parade has been taken over by corporations who use their floats as an opportunity to promote their brand and [...]
Saturday May 12th SF Pride at Work/HAVOQ came out to Kaiser Geary Medical Center with lots of pink, teal and music to demand that Kaiser stop discriminating against transgender folks in their health care plans. We picketed and flagged out front with the Brass Liberation Orchestra letting patients, staff and passersby know about how Kaiser’s policies continue to hurt transgender people. We took over the lobby before leaving, and informed Kaiser that we will be back. SF Pride at Work got involved in this issue last year when supporting a Pride at Work member who worked for many years for the City of Berkeley. When [...]
What: Join Pride at Work/HAVOQ in calling on Kaiser to end discrimination against transgender people.When and Where: Saturday May 12th at 1pm at the San Francisco Kaiser Geary campus.Why: Kaiser says they care about providing medical care that takes care of the needsof the LGBTQ community. However Kaiser, like the majority of health care providers, [...]
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