One more time – “gender reassignment surgery is not a lifestyle choice”

[Shana A]

One more time – "gender reassignment surgery is not a lifestyle choice"
February 25, 2010

http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/one-more-time-gender-reassignment-surgery-is-not-a-lifestyle-choice/

I've run into the barely-contained hysteria of the Manchester Evening News' tabloid journalism before ("Toilet signs 'too PC'"), so although the tone of this piece is tediously familiar, the content is possibly more alarming.

    "It is understood that other savings could be made through a reduction in lifestyle services such as [...] gender reassignment."

Yep, that old chestnut: "gender reassignment surgery is a lifestyle choice". Except that it isn't. Neither is it anything to do with sexual orientation; it's not a disease, or a mental disorder, or any of the other timeworn transphobic tropes.