NHS sex swap for grandad aged 80

[Shana A]

NHS sex swap for grandad aged 80
Ex-RAF ace is UK's oldest to have op

By EMILY NASH
Published: Today at 00:06
A FORMER RAF officer is to have a sex change aged 80 — in a £13,500 NHS op.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4285999/NHS-sex-swap-for-grandad-aged-80.html

Ruth Rose — a grandad of four who used to be called James — will become the oldest person in Britain to have the procedure.

She told The Sun yesterday how she has dreamed of being a woman from the age of nine.

But it is only now — nearly 70 years on and after a successful flying career — that she plans to go ahead.

Six-foot tall Ruth, of Newhaven, East Sussex, said: "It's gorgeous to be who I am at long last.

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Reading the responses that follow the article really depresses me... *sigh*

[Nathan.]

I hate the term sex swap 

[Pippa]

It's the Sun, the newspaper for those with an IQ of 12.  If it said gender reassignment, the readership wouldn't understand and would go back to rubbing sticks together to make fire