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Almost £250,000 of taxpayers’ cash could be spent on sex change operations in a Black Country borough each year, it emerged today.
Sandwell Primary Care Trust (PCT) is reviewing its policy on gender dysphoria and expects the number of procedures to increase to around four a year – costing up to £60,000 a time. Bosses today declined to confirm current numbers, citing patient confidentiality, but revealed over the past three years, there had been “five or less” such operations.
Female-to-male surgery costs around £60,000, while male-to-female surgery is about £15,000.