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I'm intersex and have both male and female anatomy. US healthcare "insurance" isn't coded for people like me. It assumes a sex binary when the facts of reality show otherwise.
Back at my old job, I had full premium health insurance. However, they kept denying each and every claim, denying literally everything. They unofficially recognized my intersex condition and used it against me.
Whenever I filed a claim as female, they'd deny it and claim I was male and thus the claim was incorrectly filled out. When I filed as male, they'd pull the exact same stunt now claiming I'm female and thus the claim was incorrectly filled out. Whatever the claim, large or small, it was always the wrong sex on the paperwork.
It was a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation. I have a better job with the government and with a different insurance company, but they too are starting to pull the same stunt. I hate this country for allowing such corruption to thrive.
What insurance company was it? ๐
This is something I haven't really thought about. I work in healthcare and I can genuinely tell you I'd have no idea how to handle this, if your meds got sent to my pharmacy there would likely be a huge delay and I guarantee you it would not be anything intentional on our side ๐ญ of course an insurance company will have dealt with this many more times than a chain pharmacy and should have practices in place for such situations, but I don't think there's anything in my system I could do to say someone is both male and female.
Yeah that's pretty much the story of my life. Everyone from insurance, to employers, to the military, to legal paperwork, to traveling, and everything else. I was even excommunicated from my church when I was 12 for the "crime" of being intersex.
Not only do I have this issue, my little brother and my uncle on my mom's side does too.