Marion County leaders sidestep complaint over transgender discrimination

Offices for Willamette Valley Community Health, where Behavioral Care Network holds its meetings. Both entities oversee healthcare for low-income residents in Marion and Polk counties. (Jessica Floum/The Lund Report)

A political game of chicken has hit a regional healthcare bureaucracy that’s leaving the transgender community feeling it could be the loser.

The Behavioral Care Network has been stuck in limbo because Marion County officials have been no-shows at the last two scheduled meetings, denying the…