‘Not Completely Me:' Transgender Workers Fight for Health Care

Anna Lange walked into the Houston County, Ga., sheriff’s department determined but terrified, not sure if she’d walk out with her job.

Known throughout a distinguished two-decade law enforcement career as a man, Lange told the sheriff in 2017 that going forward she would be her true self at work, use she/her pronouns, and don a female officer’s uniform.

Lange now wears her brown hair shoulder length, is undergoing hormone replacement therapy, and is still on the force. The sergeant became the only openly transgender person in the 300-person department, and one of the few in law enforcement in the ...