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How workplace discrimination undermines healthcare access

I am transgender and my health insurance covers my transition care but my employer keeps finding excuses to deny my time off requests for medical appointments.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The gap between formal healthcare rights and workplace retaliation demonstrates how discrimination can operate through indirect means.

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