An Ohio county believes it can attract better government employees by offering health insurance coverage for sex change operations.

Franklin County Commissioner Marilyn Brown tells NBC 4 “offering transgender healthcare benefits are not only the right thing to do, but are also great recruitment tool.”

“Some business and organizations are doing this because they know, like we know, it is a way to attract the best employees and retain them,” Brown says.

“We knew we had some people that were working in the county that were going through transition or thinking about it and we want to keep them,” she tells WOSU.

Former firefighter Lana Moore praised the move. She “was the first Columbus city firefighter to come out as openly transgender and make the transition on the job.”

“Well, I think it is the right thing to do,” Moore tells NBC 4. “Transgender people are human beings. They deserve the same medical rights to insurance benefits that anyone else would have.”

The Canton Repository notes transgender operations are often costly and “can stretch well into the thousands of dollars.”

“This insurance being provided to county individuals is a life-saving measure,” an anonymous county employee tells the paper.

“Briden Schueren said his bilateral mastectomy cost about $5,100, but that was more than eight years ago. If his hysterectomy had not been covered, he said it would have cost about $22,000,” the paper reports.

“It would be discrimination if we didn’t do this,” Brown claims.

The sex change coverage is just the latest move by the Franklin County commission to promote transgenderism.

It previously passed a resolution banning all county travel to North Carolina after the state passed a law requiring people to use the bathroom that correlates to the sex listed on their birth certificate.