A sexual transgender woman is managed with the Joiás Court (TJ-G.) The right to perform facial feminization surgery through the health planAn unpublished issue, not a state.
The decision occurred in the context of the appeal submitted by the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the State (DPE-GS) to a sentence that classifies the procedure as aesthetic.
The defender’s office has argued that the surgery is necessary for the gender transmission that the public employee has been going through for more than 10 years. The iPasgo SAúDE plan rejected the request based on the absence of coverage by the National Health Agency (ANS).
The first ruling in October 2024 considered that the procedure would be “aesthetic and experimental medical intervention” and therefore it is optional and not necessary.
The case judge, Ricardo Prata, understood that the prescription proves the need for surgery and is a therapeutic measure to relieve the suffering caused by the gender contradiction. The judge also confirmed that the list of answer procedures is not comprehensive.
The decision on April 3, and he was unanimously supported by the seventh civil judges.
Women, who prefer not to recognize themselves, indicate that her operation with sexual identity started in 2011, when she was accompanied by the TX project at the time, from the Federal University of Guashei Das Clinicas (UFG). During the sexual transformation process, she was diagnosed with hardness of the sexes, a condition recognized by medicine.
She says: “The gender defect becomes in a state of mental health from the moment when you do not feel safe with yourself, and do not feel that you are represented in your image when you see yourself.
Doctors are witnessing the need for female face surgery as an essential part of the sexual transformation process. Looking at the negative health insurance, the DPE-AG filed a lawsuit that asked the surgery to completely covered by the health plan last year.
In the petition, General defender Ketlin Chavez, the sub -coordination of a homeless person and the LGBTQiaPN Center of the NUDH Center (NUDH), stressed that “before improving the appearance, surgery aims to confirm this type, which is included in the concept of integrated human health, as a measure to prevent disease.” the
Gender emphasis procedures are recognized by the Federal Medicine Council (CFM) and was incorporated into the unified health system (SUS).
The servant said: “It is not enough to see myself and see myself as a woman. It has been inserted into the world where I need to be associated with work, in college, in emotional life, and I want to be known as a woman.”
“This achievement has a very important personal value, but at the same time it opens ways so that others can equal me to reach their rights as citizens and citizens,” she added.
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