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Transsexuals gear up for fight

Started by Shana A, April 12, 2009, 06:45:10 AM

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April 12, 2009, 06:45:10 AM
Fri, April 10, 2009
Transsexuals gear up for fight
UPDATED: 2009-04-10 02:26:05 MST

Decision to cut funding for sex reassignment surgery appears bound to fail in courts

By ANDREW HANON

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2009/04/10/9075496-sun.html

EDMONTON -- "This," says Kris Wells, "could be the next Vriend case."

The provincial government is about to drag all Albertans into yet another costly, shameful and needless legal battle -- this time over the decision to stop funding sex-change surgery.

And like the landmark Delwin Vriend Supreme Court case that forced Alberta to protect gays in its human-rights legislation a decade ago, or former premier Ralph Klein's pigheaded -- and ultimately futile -- fight with Ottawa over same-sex marriage, this is one the government cannot win.

After all, last year Ontario was forced to reinstate funding for sex-change surgery after losing a human-rights case.
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