Firms ante up for burly carpenter's sex-change surgery

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2009/05/07/9379201-sun.html
Bill Kaufman
5/7/09

CALGARY -- The corporate community has stepped up to finance sex-change surgery for a small town transgendered southern Albertan denied provincial funding for the procedure.

Some of it has come from Heather Edwards' hometown of Nanton - better known for its cowboys and arch-conservative views.

But Edwards, who was once known as Barry, said she feels far more comfortable in the town of 2,000 than she would have in the Alberta legislature, where she said "MLAs laughed at us when they cut the funding."