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Gender reassignment
Lloyds Banking Group has become the first UK organisation to extend its staff healthcare plans to cover gender dysphoria, in a move that campaign groups say more employers should emulate.
Staff at Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows – can now access gender reassignment surgery through the firm’s health insurance policy.
While the banking group estimates that 830 staff in the UK do not conform to gender binaries, but it expects that around 20 staff members will initially take up the offer.