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Title: Brazil to provide free sex-change operations
Post by: LostInTime on August 18, 2007, 06:46:00 AM
Post by: LostInTime on August 18, 2007, 06:46:00 AM
MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20323334/)
On Wednesday the 4th Regional Federal Court agreed, saying in its ruling that "from the biomedical perspective, transsexuality can be described as a sexual identity disturbance where individuals need to change their sexual designation or face serious consequences in their lives, including intense suffering, mutilation and suicide."
On Wednesday the 4th Regional Federal Court agreed, saying in its ruling that "from the biomedical perspective, transsexuality can be described as a sexual identity disturbance where individuals need to change their sexual designation or face serious consequences in their lives, including intense suffering, mutilation and suicide."
Title: Re: Brazil to provide free sex-change operations
Post by: cindianna_jones on August 18, 2007, 01:01:49 PM
Post by: cindianna_jones on August 18, 2007, 01:01:49 PM
Wow. This is a huge step forward.