VueWeekly.com – Jan Buterman
They say the first cut is the hardest, but transsexed-also known as transsexual-Albertans never expected they would find themselves without access to the only medically recognized therapy for their condition. While public argument since the April 7 provincial budget, which eliminated funding for gender reassignment surgeries in the province, has fallen primarily into a tit-for-tat argument about who should or should not receive funding for various conditions, what the average Albertan likely doesn’t know is that without completion of a number of surgeries, a transsexed person by law cannot obtain documentation that reflects their actual identity.