Sex change funding cut may take heavy toll

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Sex change funding cut may take heavy toll
Edmonton Sun
By MICHAEL PLATT
April 11, 2009


http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2009/04/11/9081746-sun.html


For Michelle Ann Duff, it wasn't a choice. Sex-change surgery was a decision between an early grave or a new life as a woman.

"I had two choices: number one was to make a gender change, and number two was to jump in front of a subway car," said Duff, 69.

The Ontario woman faced a much bigger leap of lifestyles than for the relatively few Canadians who undergo the life-altering switch every year.