Grits pass sex-change proposal but it's low priority, McNeil says
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By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
Mon. Mar 3 - 5:04 AM
Liberals think the province should be paying for sex-change operations, but party leader Stephen McNeil said the policy is on the back burner.
After a lively half-hour debate Sunday morning, Grits voted 80 to 48 in support of a resolution calling for the province to pay for transsexuals' gender-reassignment surgery. Young Liberal Neil MacIsaac, whose group moved the resolution, said transsexualism is a congenital birth condition in which someone is trapped in the body of the opposite gender.