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Title: This Time it's Personal
Post by: Shana A on April 15, 2009, 01:09:35 PM
Post by: Shana A on April 15, 2009, 01:09:35 PM
Monday, 13 April 2009
This Time it's Personal
ZOe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-time-its-personal.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-time-its-personal.html)
From iNews 880 am
Edmonton woman leads Gender Reassignment funding lawsuit
5:00PM 4/12/2009
As Alberta dives into a recession many things had to be cut from the provincial budget. That includes cutting funding for gender reassignment surgeries for Albertans with Gender Identity Disorder. The move saves about $700,000 in the provincial budget.
Edmontonian Sarah King, 33, is meeting with lawyers this week to file a lawsuit against the Alberta Government. Her own surgery was scheduled for next January, but without funding she won't be able to afford the procedure she says is way more than just cosmetic. "Without the surgery, we're caught in transition, we're caught as abnormal people in society. We're discriminated against. People have lost jobs, they have been disowned by family, they have lost friends. The surgery is so important, that without it, people could die. It's called suicide."
This Time it's Personal
ZOe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-time-its-personal.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-time-its-personal.html)
From iNews 880 am
Edmonton woman leads Gender Reassignment funding lawsuit
5:00PM 4/12/2009
As Alberta dives into a recession many things had to be cut from the provincial budget. That includes cutting funding for gender reassignment surgeries for Albertans with Gender Identity Disorder. The move saves about $700,000 in the provincial budget.
Edmontonian Sarah King, 33, is meeting with lawyers this week to file a lawsuit against the Alberta Government. Her own surgery was scheduled for next January, but without funding she won't be able to afford the procedure she says is way more than just cosmetic. "Without the surgery, we're caught in transition, we're caught as abnormal people in society. We're discriminated against. People have lost jobs, they have been disowned by family, they have lost friends. The surgery is so important, that without it, people could die. It's called suicide."
Title: Re: This Time it's Personal
Post by: mickie88 on April 16, 2009, 01:34:05 PM
Post by: mickie88 on April 16, 2009, 01:34:05 PM
Quote from: Zythyra on April 15, 2009, 01:09:35 PM
Edmontonian Sarah King, 33, is meeting with lawyers this week to file a lawsuit against the Alberta Government. Her own surgery was scheduled for next January, but without funding she won't be able to afford the procedure she says is way more than just cosmetic. "Without the surgery, we're caught in transition, we're caught as abnormal people in society. We're discriminated against. People have lost jobs, they have been disowned by family, they have lost friends. The surgery is so important, that without it, people could die. It's called suicide."
.....or murder! a lot of us still do not die by our own hand.