Legal Opinion
Cruz v. Zucker
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 29, 2015No. 14-cv-4456 (JSR)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.
The intersection of our cognition with our emotions is both the essence of our humanity and the source of our anxiety. According to the plaintiffs in this class action, someone who is born with the physical equipment of one sex but emotionally identifies as someone of the opposite sex suffers severe anxiety and emotional distress that may, however, be materially alleviated by available medical procedures. Plaintiffs further contend that New York wrongly denies Medicaid coverage for many such procedures, regarding them as merely “cosmetic” or the like. The…
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