Cole Hayes, a transgender man who was seeking a hysterectomy , wrote about his experience in The Advocate in May. "Initially, my insurance said no to paying for the hysterectomy — not because I hadn’t completed the list of medical prerequisites, but because I was a man," he wrote. "It didn’t matter that I was a trans man with a uterus. The insurance company doesn’t give men hysterectomies; there was nothing else the people there could tell me other than that their policy hadn’t been updated in quite a few years."