Transgender advocates land meeting with Victor Boudreau

[stephaniec]

Transgender advocates land meeting with Victor Boudreau

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/transgender-advocates-land-meeting-with-victor-boudreau-1.3206821

CBC News/CBC News Posted: Aug 28, 2015 7:45 AM AT|

"The New Brunswick Transgender Health Network will be meeting Health Minister Victor Boudreau next month as the group continues to lobby for provincial funding for gender reassignment surgery.

New Brunswickers seeking gender reassignment surgery are the only ones in the country who have to pay out-of-pocket for the costly procedure.

Michelle Leard, a founder of the New Brunswick Transgender Health Network, said her organization has been trying unsuccessfully for months to get a meeting with the province's health minister to raise this concern.

She said the meeting invitation came as a shock."