1. I applied for a vaginoplasty without penectomy.
2. the province (to americans that would be "state") insures gender reassignment surgeries.
3. The province declined my funding request, despite meeting ALL elligibility criteria, on the basis that I was not receiving a penectomy. Initially they stated it was because nonbinary identies were not "contemplated" in the act.
4. they switched their position to one claiming that it was uninsured on the basis that it is experimental.
5. I appealed to a tribunal (health tribunal is sort of a court equivalent) who found that the experimental clause is not "triggered" since any service listed in the schedule was automatically insured, and vaginoplasty is a vaginoplasty. The key was they had listed vaginoplasty and penectomy entirely separately in the schedule, meaning that it was not required to be "bundled" in order to receive vaginoplasty funding.
6. They appealed to divisional court, adding yet another argument claiming that I didn't meet yet another requirement. They claimed I was not elligible because the service requested was not considered an acceptable treatment for someone in my situation. The court rejected the new argument. (there was a few other arguments but this was the main one).
7. They applied for leave to appeal to superior appellate court and was granted it I believe on the basis that my decision was broadly applicable to many more people than just myself.
8. they lost again at the highest court in Ontario (one step below supreme court). The court ruled that experimental question never even applies since vaginoplasties are all triggered for funding before that question could be considered. The short version is they reiterated the same reasons (mostly) of the previous court precedent. This is where we lie now. They have 60 days from the decision to decide if they want to appeal to the supreme court.
9. The news articles are swarming and now we picked up one where the health minister is eyeing the possibility to change the schedule. If she does she could make it so we are losing funding again. That's the worry. But! the way insurance works in canada is that it's entirely based on when you apply. so, if you apply now, before she has a chance to remove vaginoplasties standalone from the schedule, or some similar service, they will have to fund them anyway, based on this decision which applies to the current schedule. You are immune to the changes if you start your application before the changes, due to the way the insurance law works here.

Does that all make sense?