New changes to PEI’s Gender Affirming Care Procedure Coverage Policy

New changes to PEI’s Gender Affirming Care Procedure Coverage Policy gives gender diverse Islanders access to more gender affirming care. The changes expand the list of covered procedures first set out in 2019.  Health PEI established a Gender Affirming Care Steering Committee in 2018 with community representation to provide guidance from people with lived experience on service and policy development. The updated list of insured surgeries comes after extensive community and government engagement, as well as a policy review process. The changes bring PEI into alignment with the latest version of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standards of Care and include procedures to address secondary sex characteristics and additional areas of gender incongruence.