Insurance

Southern Cross launches gender-inclusive application

Thursday 18th of January 2018

The health society said, to offer cover under some of its policies, it needed to know the biological make-up of an applicant, or their biological sex.

But this could be a problem for people who had had gender reassignment surgery or were intersex.

Now, when it asks whether an applicant is male or female, it says: “In most cases biological sex is that assigned at birth however if y...

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