Gender-confirming surgeries made insured service for New Brunswickers

[stephaniec]

Gender-confirming surgeries made insured service for New Brunswickers

http://globalnews.ca/news/2739937/gender-confirming-surgeries-made-insured-service-for-new-brunswickers/

Global News/By Rhonda Brown
Supervising Producer    Global News  June 3, 2016 1:48 pm

"The province of New Brunswick has announced it will make medically necessary gender-confirming surgeries an insured service in the province.

The province will also allow transgender individuals to change their birth certificates to match their gender identities."

[SarahElizabeth1981]

They finally caught up with the rest of the country. it doesn't say how difficult it will be though. at a time when other provinces are reducing barriers to access hopefully they don't start where other provinces were before