Okay, that article just makes me furious. I really hate the way that treatment for some conditions is totted up down to the last penny and the cost brandished around as if it's this scandalous indulgence, while other treatments and procedures attract no such scrutiny.
Two million quid is beans when taken against the number of people helped and the immesurable, life-or-death importance of the surgery to those recieving it. It's necessary surgery--as necessary as a hip replacement or a cataract op.
I wonder how much money is spent every year on the unnecessary, damaging, medieval surgeries that are still inflicted on intersex children--often scores of them throughout a single individuals life? Hey, maybe if we stopped repeatedly cutting up little boys' and girls' bodies when they're too tiny to speak, we could pay for more SRS for consenting adults!
