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Title: Sex-change funding cut 'matter of life and death'
Post by: Butterfly on May 04, 2010, 05:38:08 PM
Post by: Butterfly on May 04, 2010, 05:38:08 PM
Sex-change funding cut 'matter of life and death'
Edmonton Journal
By Jodie Sinnema
04 May, 2010
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/change+funding+matter+life+death/1480527/story.html (http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/change+funding+matter+life+death/1480527/story.html)
Dismayed and angry members of the transgendered community are preparing to launch a human rights complaint after the province delisted sex-change surgery from its funding coverage.
"It's a matter of life and death," said Jamie-Lynn Garvin, a 47-year-old who has been living as a woman for the last two years and was on a waiting list for a sex-change operation (although her funding hadn't yet been approved).
"That's the only light at the end of the tunnel for me. I felt like I was in the wrong body my whole life."
Edmonton Journal
By Jodie Sinnema
04 May, 2010
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/change+funding+matter+life+death/1480527/story.html (http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/change+funding+matter+life+death/1480527/story.html)
Dismayed and angry members of the transgendered community are preparing to launch a human rights complaint after the province delisted sex-change surgery from its funding coverage.
"It's a matter of life and death," said Jamie-Lynn Garvin, a 47-year-old who has been living as a woman for the last two years and was on a waiting list for a sex-change operation (although her funding hadn't yet been approved).
"That's the only light at the end of the tunnel for me. I felt like I was in the wrong body my whole life."
Title: Re: Sex-change funding cut 'matter of life and death'
Post by: LordKAT on May 05, 2010, 03:09:02 AM
Post by: LordKAT on May 05, 2010, 03:09:02 AM
story not available.
Huh?
Huh?
Title: Re: Sex-change funding cut 'matter of life and death'
Post by: Kaelin on May 05, 2010, 03:12:15 AM
Post by: Kaelin on May 05, 2010, 03:12:15 AM
It's there for me.
I want to give a small Boot to the Head to whoever put the caption for the picture. >_<
I want to give a small Boot to the Head to whoever put the caption for the picture. >_<
Title: Re: Sex-change funding cut 'matter of life and death'
Post by: LordKAT on May 05, 2010, 03:31:25 AM
Post by: LordKAT on May 05, 2010, 03:31:25 AM
It there now, wonder what happened.