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Brown University to pay for students' sex change procedures

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PROVIDENCE , February 8, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Students at Brown University who decide they want to live as the opposite sex will now be covered under the school’s student health insurance plan. Starting in August, Brown’s student health insurance plan will pay for more than a dozen different sexual reassignment surgery procedures, including scrotoplasty, labiaplasty, clitoroplasty , and placement of testicular prostheses,  reports   The Brown Daily Herald . “We identified this as an important benefit for students to have access to,” Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services Jeanne Hebert wrote in an e-mail to the  Daily Herald . She said that the school-funded sex change operations were part of a broader effort “to support all students” at Brown. The total cost for any given sexual reassignment surgery can be as much as $50,000. Kelly Garrett , who coordinates Brown’s LGBTQ Center, said that the sexual reassignment procedures soon to be included in Bro

Google to gay pay more

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Image via CrunchBase A news release from Google says that the mega-search engine company will begin paying its homosexual employees more than their heterosexual counterparts. Citing a tax law that says health insurance benefits paid to civil partners of homosexual employees are considered taxable income, while benefits provided to married spouses are not taxed, Google announced it will rectify the tax "discrimination" against homosexuals by paying them the difference. On average an extra $1,069 per year will be given to homosexuals, according to a NY Times report. The company said on  its blog  Thursday, that it will be “grossing-up imputed taxes on health insurance benefits for all same-sex domestic partners in the United States , retroactive to January 1, 2010.” Google is well known for its endorsement of homosexuality and already has parental leave for homosexuals equivalent to the Family and Medical Leave Act ; it is working with its insurers to change the definition