More companies get sex change coverage

An increasing number of companies take out insurance policies that pay for employees’ sex change, About.com reports.

Companies such as Apple, Kellogg, Sprint, Levi-Strauss and Office Depot have now been added to the list of corporations where staff can have gender reassignment surgery without forking out thousands of dollars.

According to gay rights organization The Human Rights Campaign, ten years ago no companies paid for gender reassignment procedures. In 2009, 49 companies paid, and this year, 207 of the 636 businesses surveyed said their insurance would pay for gender reassignment.

There seems to be an increased awareness that sex change is not just a cosmetic procedure, but rather a procedure to make the body match what the brain feels.