Golden Rule insurance and trans clients

[alinonymous.livejournal.com]

One of the things counsellor Hildegarde tasked me with is finding out if my Golden Rule health insurance will cover transgender care. I can't find any statement of policy or anything to that effect on their website, and the policy is currently in my parents' hands and they're out of the house until after Labor Day. I can't get a copy of the policy in my hands until then since they aren't allowed to send to my uni address because it's not on the account.
So, my question is, what has been your experiences with Golden Rule as far as covering counselling, hormones, an endocrinologist visits?

cross-posted between alinonymous and transgender and mtf

Breastforms and Employment

[trailrat.livejournal.com]

Right then, lets start of with some basic information that may be helpful in your advice!

I'm MtF and I live in the UK (England). I'm also seeing the local gender clinic about getting hormones. I think I'm right in saying I have no solid status as female, nothing legal! A close shave still leaves me with a grey chin.


Now, the thing is I don't feel right without wearing the breastforms. I pretty much wear them all the time with one or two exceptions, like when I go to my parents or when I'm sleeping!!

In February I started work after being out of work for two years. I love this job. Now the problem is I work in a school kitchen and whilst contact is brief, I do come in contact with the kids. I didn't wear them for my first "term"!

I want to start wearing them to work but I can't wear make-up, especially the kind of make-up to make me feel passable.

I work as a relief for my local council which means I could be working any of the 60 primary schools in my local area. I worked in one school until the end of term and they know about my life decision. They were cool about it too. They even want to meet me all "dolled up"!! But I can't rely on being in just the one school!

I need to find a way to approach this as tactfully as I can with the actual council! Just showing up with boobs one day seems to lack tact to me!

So yeah, help. Please.