Legal health insurance was asked to pay the permanent removal of the mustaches of a transsexual born as a man. Temporary methods are not sufficient, said the work and the social court of Vienna.
The claims of transsexuals against legal health insurance have been strengthened by the judgment. The person concerned had reached a reimbursement of the costs for removing the whiskers after the health insurance had refused.
A daily shave, waxing or other temporary methods are not sufficient and have had psychological consequences, the “press” quoted from the judgment.
Transfrau: “Gender discrepance” by Bart
Legal health insurance had argued that even in biological women there was no wages for removing whiskers. A reimbursement of the costs in transsexuals would therefore object to the equality principle. Moreover, you can also help yourself with a daily shave, hair removal cream or washing. The person born as a man, in whom a gender dysphoria was diagnosed, emphasized that the beard clearly emphasized the discrepancy of gender and that this would also have psychological consequences.
Without epilation stressed by illness
This argument was followed by the Vienna Labor and Social Court in the verdict that was done last year, but was now published. “If the applicant had to shave on her face every day, she would show her every day that she was in the wrong sex,” the judge said. Before washing, the hair should grow a few millimeters, “so that the applicant could not leave the house on such days” without being stressed. Legal health insurance was convicted of paying for laser pilation.
Source: Krone
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