Friday, May 11, 2007

Good Week for Transpeople in California

The San Francisco Police Commission has elected openly-transgender Commissioner Theresa Sparks as its new President. Her election as President makes Sparks the city’s first openly transgender head of a major commission in San Francisco and likely the city’s highest ranking transgender official.

The City of Berkeley is considering incorporating sex-change surgery into employee health care benefits. Kaiser Permanente offers sex-change operation benefits to all University of California employees and San Francisco city employees, but groups must ask for it to be included in their plans, a spokeswoman said. “I just think it's time for Berkeley to catch up with mainstream corporate America on this issue.”

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