The Catalan Public Health Authority performed 46 sex change operations in a year

[Shana A]

The Catalan Public Health Authority performed 46 sex change operations in a year and a half.

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The Gender Identity Unit of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona is the only public facility that performs these operations in Catalonia, and access is made through the Psychiatry Service.
The Catalan Public Health Authority performed 46 sex change operations in a year and a half.

Within the gay pride day, which this year is dedicated to the transgender group, has been announced that the Catalan public health authority has funded 46 sex-change operations since December 2008, when it began to cover these operations on the community service portfolio, as has been reported by the consellera de Salut de la Generalitat, Marina Geli.