Ont. to cover sex changes again: Smitherman

[Natasha]

Ont. to cover sex changes again: Smitherman

Link 🔗 [Link: chealth.canoe.ca/channel_​health_​news_​details.asp/]
5/15/2008

"TORONTO - Ontario will soon join other provinces in providing coverage for sex-change surgery under the province's health insurance plan, Health Minister George Smitherman confirmed Thursday."

[gothique11]

Subject: Ontario reinstates funding for sex-change surgery
Body:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=32057be3-8451-48a6-8703-37b1fa8ac05a 🔗

"Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman said Thursday the province plans to reinstate funding for sex-change surgery nearly a decade after the previous Conservative government stopped covering the procedure."


--natalie

[Dennis]

Wow, finally. Good to see.

Dennis

[Suzy]

That's great news.  I think I'm moving.

[Dawn Labelle]

Interesting how the Conservatives took it away a decade ago, yet a Conservative is putting it back in. Where were the lib's in all this?

[Natasha]

more here. 🔗 [Link: torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/05/16/5584481-​sun.html/]