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Title: Turkish girl gets £60k sex swap on the NHS to become 'Dennis'
Post by: Shana A on March 18, 2010, 09:48:11 PM
Turkish girl gets £60k sex swap on the NHS to become 'Dennis'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:22 AM on 18th March 2010

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258794/Turkish-girl-gets-60k-sex-swap-NHS-Dennis.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258794/Turkish-girl-gets-60k-sex-swap-NHS-Dennis.html)

Sex change operation: The Turkish woman is having the costly treatment on the NHS

A Turkish transsexual woman who claimed UK asylum will have more than £60,000 of NHS surgery to become a man called Dennis, it has been claimed.

The 33-year-old won the right to become a British resident after fleeing from her Muslim homeland in 2002, claiming she was being persecuted.

Taxpayer cash will now fund her gender-reassignment programme.

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By NICK PARKER, Chief Foreign Correspondent

Published: 18 Mar 2010

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2896956/60k-sex-swap-for-migrant.html (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2896956/60k-sex-swap-for-migrant.html)

A TURKISH transsexual woman granted UK asylum is having at least £60,000-worth of NHS surgery to become a man called Dennis.

The 33-year-old fled to Britain in 2002 claiming she was being persecuted in her Muslim homeland.

She has now won the right to become a UK resident - and taxpayers' cash will fund her gender-reassignment programme. Identified only as G.O, she was born female but will get a prosthetic penis. Her breasts have been removed and she told friends she wants the name Dennis.
Title: Re: Turkish girl gets £60k sex swap on the NHS to become 'Dennis'
Post by: PanoramaIsland on March 18, 2010, 09:58:28 PM
Why is this even news, and why are they using female pronouns to refer to him?