£10M NHS BILL AS SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS SOAR

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£10M NHS BILL AS SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS SOAR
Daily Express
By Martyn Brown
July 6, 2009


http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/112058/-10m-NHS-bill-as-sex-change-operations-soar


More than 1,000 have had the surgery in the last decade, according to new figures obtained by the Daily Express.

The number has trebled since the procedure became a "right" 10 years ago.

Almost 80 per cent of the operations are to change a man into a woman.

But critics argue that sex-change surgery is a waste of valuable NHS resources when patients are suffering because of healthcare rationing, especially as Britain is in the grip of a major swine flu outbreak.