seth pardo our evaluator and we are here to give you an up date about the transgender health services and talk about our evaluation plan. some of you may remember that in november of 2012, the health commission made a historic decision and decided to cover surgery medically necessary general, gender surgery for transagain ter people. this is something that did not exist in this way anywhere else in the u.s. and then, director garcia appointed evans to create a program. the only models is in european countries where there is socialized medicine, it did not exist, if the people wanted these, they had to pay out of pocket which meant that they are out of reach. in 2013, the department of managed healthcare, removed the discrimination exclusions that insures that medical will cover, gender related care. this is primarily for your reference, and this is transgender health services, the direction that we are headed. so we are under community behavior health services. and in truth i just want to give you a shout out to joe robinson, because without joe, i think that we would not have nearly

seth pardo our evaluator and we are here to give you an up date about the transgender health services and talk about our evaluation plan. some of you may remember that in november of 2012, the health commission made a historic decision and decided to cover surgery medically necessary general, gender surgery for transagain ter people. this is something that did not exist in this way anywhere else in the u.s. and then, director garcia appointed evans to create a program. the only models is in european countries where there is socialized medicine, it did not exist, if the people wanted these, they had to pay out of pocket which meant that they are out of reach. in 2013, the department of managed healthcare, removed the discrimination exclusions that insures that medical will cover, gender related care. this is primarily for your reference, and this is transgender health services, the direction that we are headed. so we are under community behavior health services. and in truth i just want to give you a shout out to joe robinson, because without joe, i think that we would not have nearly