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Rights groups: Doctors discriminating against sex-change patients in Israel

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July 29, 2010, 05:00:47 PM
Rights groups: Doctors discriminating against sex-change patients in Israel
By Dan Even
29 July, 2010


http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/rights-groups-doctors-discriminating-against-sex-change-patients-in-israel-1.304689




Members of Israel's transgender community are protesting what they see as discriminatory treatment by the Israeli medical system, including doctors' demands for a psychological evaluation before providing hormonal treatments for people who want to undergo sex changes.

A project promoting the right to high-quality health care for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered will be kicked off at today's gay pride parade in Jerusalem.
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