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The Alberta government will cover sex-change operations for those who have already been identified as needing the surgery, but the procedure will be delisted for new patients, Health Minister Ron Liepert confirmed Tuesday.
The decision to drop coverage of the procedure was announced in last week’s provincial budget and is estimated to save the government $700,000 a year.
Members of Alberta’s transgendered population and their supporters went to the Alberta legislature on Tuesday in hopes of getting the province to change its mind.