By: Abbi Coursolle and Catherine McKee
Executive Summary
Two transgender Wisconsin residents filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin challenging the legality of the a state prohibition on low-income Medicaid beneficiaries from obtaining medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria. See their complaint filed by the National Health Law Program, the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC, and the Wisconsin law firm McNally Peterson, S.C.