MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The City of Miami Beach will be the first municipality in Florida to offer transgender benefits to city employees.
The city commission voted unanimously last week to offer the coverage, which takes effect in October.
“It’s important for us not to be pro-LGBT by word, but more importantly by action,” said Mayor Philip Levine after the Commission’s decision. “We want to make [Miami Beach] the most progressive, pragmatic in America. These types of initiatives are part of that vision and our mandate.”
The benefits will include gender-reassignment surgery and hormone treatments, reports WLRN-TV.
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A consultant to the city noted that the procedures were not any more expensive than pregnancy care, heart surgery, or other kinds of necessary health expenses.