Rowan Anemone
@anemonology.bsky.social
She/They • 🏳️⚧️ • ☭ • AuDHD
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Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age”
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FEHB Program Carrier Letter
All FEHB and PSHB Carriers
FEHB &
PSHB 区
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Healthcare and Insurance
Letter Number 2025-01b
Date: August 15, 2025
Fee-for-service [9]
Experience-rated HMO [9]
Community-rated HMO [10]
Subject: Chemical and Surgical Sex-Trait
Modification Services for Plan Year 2026 Proposals
This Carrier Letter serves as a second Addendum to Carrier Letter 2025-01, and supplemental guidance to Carrier Letter 2025-05. The guidance outlined below supersedes any previous Carrier Letter with conflicting information.
For Plan Year 2026, chemical and surgical modification of an individual's sex traits through medical interventions (to include "gender transition" services) will no longer be covered under the FEHB or PSHB Programs. This exclusion expands upon Carrier Letter 2025-01a and applies regardless of age.
As an exception, counseling services for possible or diagnosed gender dysphoria must still be covered. Covered counseling services must be provided by a licensed mental health provider and may include those who provide faith-based counseling.
1 First Addendum (2025-01a) to Call Letter Plan Year 2026 issued on 1/31/25](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4jfgpnpcxd2be2hekn5iocf/bafkreicrsx2fy5crg5uknlq5o4wvnztdvlh6dgzuv4qnazh25qmgrhyzca@jpeg)
August 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age”
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"It's just your healthcare"
Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age”
www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...
Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age”
www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...
August 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
"It's just your healthcare"
Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age”
www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...
Federal employee health plans barred from covering gender affirming care “regardless of age”
www.opm.gov/healthcare-i...
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i think there is something to be said about the fact that the scotus decision and the cass report make similar arguments when justifying the destruction of trans healthcare, and that every time another blow is dealt to us, dumbass cis ppl are like "don't worry they can't take away ur identity 🙂"
July 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
i think there is something to be said about the fact that the scotus decision and the cass report make similar arguments when justifying the destruction of trans healthcare, and that every time another blow is dealt to us, dumbass cis ppl are like "don't worry they can't take away ur identity 🙂"
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How can we be so unimportant to you that our rights dont matter but so important to you that we are *responsible* if you lose an election?
We absolutely cannot be both that important and unimportant at the same time.
We absolutely cannot be both that important and unimportant at the same time.
July 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How can we be so unimportant to you that our rights dont matter but so important to you that we are *responsible* if you lose an election?
We absolutely cannot be both that important and unimportant at the same time.
We absolutely cannot be both that important and unimportant at the same time.
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A hallmark of conspiracy theories is obsession with cover-ups and "censorship" over actual evidence of their core claims.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.
June 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A hallmark of conspiracy theories is obsession with cover-ups and "censorship" over actual evidence of their core claims.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.
If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.
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This is the first time the Democrats have said anything about trans people all year and it's a clip of their pick me calling us a distraction.
They can't wait to throw us under the bus and back it over us for good measure.
They can't wait to throw us under the bus and back it over us for good measure.
Rep. Sarah McBride: “Every single time they say the word trans, every single time they say the word immigrant, look what they’re doing with their grubby hands. I guarantee you that they’re picking the pocket of American workers.”
June 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is the first time the Democrats have said anything about trans people all year and it's a clip of their pick me calling us a distraction.
They can't wait to throw us under the bus and back it over us for good measure.
They can't wait to throw us under the bus and back it over us for good measure.
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'Describing medicine as a “balance of risk,” the researchers at the University of London said the ban “ignored one side of this balance of risk,” which was the “absolute certainty of severe psychological, physical and social harm scarring the lives of trans children and young people”.'
June 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
'Describing medicine as a “balance of risk,” the researchers at the University of London said the ban “ignored one side of this balance of risk,” which was the “absolute certainty of severe psychological, physical and social harm scarring the lives of trans children and young people”.'
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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this image of the FBI at the orders of the state to arrest an elected politician for just asking the DHS secretary a question needs to be spread for the next 4 years when talking about the fascism of this administration
June 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
this image of the FBI at the orders of the state to arrest an elected politician for just asking the DHS secretary a question needs to be spread for the next 4 years when talking about the fascism of this administration
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they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this
🚨 The US House of Reps have now PASSED their budget bill that includes a BAN on Gender Affirming Care for Medicaid for ALL AGES.
This bill now goes to the Senate where it’s likely to pass.
Call your Senators!
This bill now goes to the Senate where it’s likely to pass.
Call your Senators!
May 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this
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Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
May 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
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A comic I made a while back about meeting my past selves!
November 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
A comic I made a while back about meeting my past selves!
Paid $5 for an app to tell me I sound like Mark Ruffalo.
April 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Paid $5 for an app to tell me I sound like Mark Ruffalo.
Hunting shows are just ASMR for dudes.
March 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Hunting shows are just ASMR for dudes.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I think transition terminology itself comes more from the way cis people perceive us.
It also comes from a time when a TRANSITION meant cutting ties with everyone you knew and becoming an entirely different person.
The trans equivalent of entering a witness protection program.
It also comes from a time when a TRANSITION meant cutting ties with everyone you knew and becoming an entirely different person.
The trans equivalent of entering a witness protection program.
March 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I think transition terminology itself comes more from the way cis people perceive us.
It also comes from a time when a TRANSITION meant cutting ties with everyone you knew and becoming an entirely different person.
The trans equivalent of entering a witness protection program.
It also comes from a time when a TRANSITION meant cutting ties with everyone you knew and becoming an entirely different person.
The trans equivalent of entering a witness protection program.
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My endocrinologist is so good. I love that woman.
March 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My endocrinologist is so good. I love that woman.
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1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
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Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
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Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies
The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.
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March 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture.
S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches.
Subscribe to support our journalism.