The bill would establish transgender health benefits for city workers to cover psychotherapy, hormone treatments, laser-hair removal and gender-confirmation surgery, which costs about $50,000 per procedure…

The bill would also provide up to two tax credits – the lesser of $4,000 or 25 percent of any cost increases – to companies that start offering health care for life partners and their children and covering transgender medical needs. Green said the $2 million a year the city would dish out for the tax credit is a “waste” and would provide “a marginal and incremental benefit.”

Dolan Kneafsey, 37, a transgender male and city employee who appeared before Council yesterday with his wife and one of his two sons, disagreed.

“I ask you to look at one of my sons and ask yourself why shouldn’t he have health insurance and health care just as someone who was born biologically male, as he and his wife should have,” Kneafsey said. “We should all be covered the same.”