By STAFF REPORTER
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3035960/Transsexual-to-sue-over-boob.html (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3035960/Transsexual-to-sue-over-boob.html)
AN unemployed transsexual has been given legal aid to SUE cash strapped health bosses for refusing to pay for her fake boobs.
Jobless Miranda Lee, 40, says she has been left "half man, half woman" after she underwent £60,000 of gender changing surgery but was refused an £8,000 breast augmentation.
Miss Lee, formerly known as Raymond Harwood, has now been granted legal aid to take action against health bosses.
The comments on that story are rather disheartening. But not surprising considering the nature of the Sun readership, to a large extent.
I think she is well within her rights to pursue this, regardless of her employment status and whatever else she may or may not be claiming for. If a procedure is given the go ahead then it's not right to stop halfway through. Forethought should have been given to the entirety of the cost involved before agreeing to do it.
Maybe the money she makes from selling her story could be used towards funding it instead, irrespective of the principle behind it, and she can get on with living her life.
She'll most likely lose. It's not exactly the 1st time similar case have been reported to take place, never mind counting those that's not in the papers.
Quote from: ƃuıxǝʌ on June 30, 2010, 04:31:08 PM
I don't agree. Small breasts don't make you less of a woman; plenty of cis women have very, very small breasts and the NHS doesn't provide them funding for augmentation.
Buy a pair of bra fillets. Save the taxpayer £8,000.
I guess you missed the memo.
http://www.queerty.com/transgender-with-small-tits-then-youre-not-a-woman-to-france-20100611/#ixzz0qlWoWlw9 (http://www.queerty.com/transgender-with-small-tits-then-youre-not-a-woman-to-france-20100611/#ixzz0qlWoWlw9)