huffingtonpost.com – Jacob M. Appe – Bioethicist and medical historian
Although the National Health Service in Great Britain has paid for gender reassignment surgery for transsexuals since 1999, at a cost of approximately £10,000 per procedure, precisely how much masculinization or feminization should be funded by the taxpayers remains a matter of ongoing controversy. Many patients with Gender Identity Disorder have for years complained that local health trusts generate countless bureaucratic obstacles for those seeking reassignment, often reducing the NHS promise of medical therapy into merely a paper right…