Who's Helping Cuba's Transgender Community Get the Government to Pay for Surgery

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Who's Helping Cuba's Transgender Community Get the Government to Pay for Surgery? The President's Own Daughter

http://www.queerty.com/whos-helping-cubas-transgender-community-get-the-government-to-pay-for-surgery-the-presidents-own-daughter-20100120/

Cuba's Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro, is the most visible gay rights advocate on the island. Whether that means Cuba will see a gay pride parade anytime soon is one question, but for now how about settling for state-sponsored gender reassignment surgeries?

After Cuba lifted the ban, in 2007, on the government paying for transgender medical procedures, Ms. Castro, who runs the Center for Sex Education, told reporters that surgeries began in 2008. But "less than half" of Cuba's 30 candidates for surgery have been serviced, she says.