Corporate Equality Index: Does it Give Credit for “Reparative Therapy” or Mental Health Counseling?
The HRC Foundation would not give credit to employers that have only made, or officially recommend, mental health counseling benefits available for reparative therapy to an employee or dependent based on their gender identity or expression or sexual orientation. HRC’s main goal with these criteria is removing discriminatory “transgender exclusion” statements from insurance contracts. By removing these exclusions, employees and other dependents covered under a medical plan have access to a wide range of healthcare providers, each of whom will handle patients differently. • Health Insurance Discrimination for Transgender People Given the vast numbers of providers, as well as the often very indirect relationship these providers generally have with an employer’s health insurance plan, it is impossible for HRC to monitor all of the mental healthcare providers that participate in an employer’s health insurance plans. However, as with any discrepancy between what is reported in the Corporate
