Swiss ordered to reimburse cost of gender reassignment surgery

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Swiss ordered to reimburse cost of gender reassignment surgery
Pink News, UK
By Felicity Baker
January 12, 2009


http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10461.html


The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a 72-year old transsexual will be reimbursed after her country's health insurance refused to pay the cost of her gender reassignment treatment. Nadine Sclumpf, from Switzerland, was awarded 15,000 euros (£13,400).