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Title: Swiss ordered to reimburse cost of gender reassignment surgery
Post by: Butterfly on January 15, 2009, 04:24:56 AM
Post by: Butterfly on January 15, 2009, 04:24:56 AM
Swiss ordered to reimburse cost of gender reassignment surgery
Pink News, UK
By Felicity Baker
January 12, 2009
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10461.html (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10461.html)
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a 72-year old transsexual will be reimbursed after her country's health insurance refused to pay the cost of her gender reassignment treatment. Nadine Sclumpf, from Switzerland, was awarded 15,000 euros (£13,400).
Pink News, UK
By Felicity Baker
January 12, 2009
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10461.html (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10461.html)
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a 72-year old transsexual will be reimbursed after her country's health insurance refused to pay the cost of her gender reassignment treatment. Nadine Sclumpf, from Switzerland, was awarded 15,000 euros (£13,400).