Fletcher v. State of Alaska

• 2014: Client Jennifer Fletcher is diagnosed with gender dysphoria. In consultation with health care professionals, she starts hormone therapy and transitions to living openly as the woman that she is.
• 2017: Confronted with the AlaskaCare plan’s blanket exclusion of transition-related surgical treatment, Jennifer must pay out of her own pocket for medically necessary care.
• Early 2018: AlaskaCare plan begins covering transition-related hormone therapy, recognizing that such treatment is medically necessary, but continues to categorically prohibit coverage for transition-related surgical treatment, even though it can also be medically necessary.
• March 2018: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) determines that there was reasonable cause to believe that the State of Alaska has violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
• June 2018: Lambda Legal files federal lawsuit on Jennifer’s behalf, arguing that the State of Alaska has violated the sex discrimination prohibition of Title VII.
• February 2020: Oral argument at the Alaska District Court.

Complaint for Declaratory Relief and Damages Under Title VII (06/5/2018)

Order (03/6/2020)

Plaintiff's Reply in Support of Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Opposition to Defendant's Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment (02/14/2020)

Plaintiffs’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (07/3/2019)