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Article: Sex changes on the NHS have trebled.(News)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2009
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Byline: Stephanie Condron
THE number of people having sexchange operations on the NHS each year has almost trebled since the procedure became a 'right'.
More than 1,000 people have had the surgery in a decade, costing the taxpayer up to [pounds sterling]10million.
Eighty per cent of the operations are to change a man into a woman.
In addition to surgery, transsexuals can also get psychotherapy and hormone replacement therapy on the NHS.
But critics argue that sex-change operations are a waste of valuable NHS resources when people are dying and suffering because of healthcare rationing.
Opponents also cannot understand ...