A group of US federal government employees filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday against a new policy introduced by the Trump administration. The policy would remove coverage for gender identity health services in federal Medicare plans. As this new policy officially came into effect at the beginning of the new year, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation filed a lawsuit against the US Office of Personnel Administration on behalf of federal employees. The US Office of Personnel Management made it clear in a letter in August last year that from 2026, health insurance plans for federal employees and US postal system employees will no longer cover “drug and surgical modification programs carried out on individual gender characteristics through medical means.”

A group of US federal government employees filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday against a new policy introduced by the Trump administration. The policy would remove coverage for gender identity health services in federal Medicare plans. As this new policy officially came into effect at the beginning of the new year, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation filed a lawsuit against the US Office of Personnel Administration on behalf of federal employees. The US Office of Personnel Management made it clear in a letter in August last year that from 2026, health insurance plans for federal employees and US postal system employees will no longer cover “drug and surgical modification programs carried out on individual gender characteristics through medical means.”