Stephen Gruber-Miller reports:
Republican lawmakers included the policy in the state's $2.47 billion health and human services budget, which funds Iowa's Department of Health and Human Services, including Iowa's Medicaid program, as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Reynolds, a Republican, announced the bill's signing in a news release Wednesday, June 11, without comment.
The American Medical Society says gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy and surgeries, is necessary to treat gender dysphoria, which occurs when an incongruence exists between a person's expressed gender and the gender they were assigned at birth.
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