By DAVID LOWE
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3271697/Frenchmans-free-UK-sex-swap-op.html (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3271697/Frenchmans-free-UK-sex-swap-op.html)
FRENCHMAN Patrick Escoffier moved to Britain for a sex change on the NHS - and a new life as PATTY.
The father of five was refused a gender swap by French doctors - but Brit surgeons agreed to do the £20,000 operation without charge.
And Patty, 53, will get female hormones for the rest of her life at the expense of UK taxpayers.
in theory I could get my op in France but the red tape would prevent it.. UK has been known as a soft touch by all sorts of freeloaders.
meanwhile, the Beano reports that Lord Snooty has invited some friends over for a bash and one of them is a foreign type.
Will it ever end?
(For any non-British types, the Beano is a comic, slightly more credable than the Sun. http://www.beano.com/ (http://www.beano.com/) )