ID Reform Weblog by Kelley Winters, USA
February 6, 2010
A Taxing Question of Medical Necessity
Kelley Winters, Ph.D.
GID Reform Advocates
www.gidreform.org
Many trans and especially transsexual Americans were relieved this week by
the U.S. Tax Court decision<http://www.glad.org/work/cases/in-re-rhiannon-odonnabhain/>to
reverse earlier IRS positions <http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/0603025.pdf> and allow costs of
hormonal and surgical transition care to be deducted as medical expenses.
The ruling concluded:
Petitioner has shown that her hormone [...]