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Title: Canada: Ontario Reinstates Surgery For Transsexuals
Post by: Shana A on May 17, 2008, 10:09:12 AM
Canada: Ontario Reinstates Surgery For Transsexuals
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat May 17, 2008 at 03:15:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=B29013E6D29DCE239DABD0E5766B270F?diaryId=5414 (http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=B29013E6D29DCE239DABD0E5766B270F?diaryId=5414)

In Canada's national healthcare system, for years all of the provinces and territories provided coverage for genital reassignment surgery -- except for Quebec and Ontario. For Ontario, it stopped covering the surgery over ten years ago.

Times change. Per CNEWS, Ontario will resume coverage of sexual reassignment surgery:

Title: Re: Canada: Ontario Reinstates Surgery For Transsexuals
Post by: Keira on May 17, 2008, 12:34:45 PM

Since you have to go through Clarke to get SRS in Ontario,
I think chopping your own thingie is almost a better option  ;)
than convincing those morons.