Vandaag stond er het volgende in een New Zeelandse krant:
Merkwaardig dat een arts zo denkt over de pijn van een trans.Sex change op queried
The opposition is using a sex change operation to challenge the Government's priorities in health funding.
A sex change operation for a 73-year-old has set the opposition questioning the Government's priorities with health funding. At the end of this year Vicky Harvey will see a plastic surgeon for a $30,000 operation to make her a woman.
National Party health spokesman Paul Hutchison says there is cause for concern when there are 180,000 New Zealanders waiting for surgery.
Dr Hutchison says when you have tens of thousands of New Zealanders in pain waiting for operations, sex change surgery need to be looked at.
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Ook hebben wij in september 2003 en oktober 2004 geschreven over Alan Finch, een australier die twee keer toe een SRS heeft ondergaan (M->V en daarna V->M) en een rechtzaak heeft aangespannen tegen het medische team dat de operatie had aangespannen.
In de australische pers is het volgende artikel daarover verschenen:
Het beroep van de tegenpartij, dat probeerde de rechtzaak tegen te houden met als argument dat de operatie te lang geleden heeft plaatsgevonden, is verworpen, zodat de rechtzaak door mag gaan.Court rules in favour of transsexual's legal action
An appeal to try to stop a case involving a Melbourne man who underwent sex change surgery has been denied.
Alan Finch is suing the medical clinic that performed an operation in 1988 to turn him into a woman, alleging he was misdiagnosed.
He now lives as a man.
Mr Finch says he discovered eight years after his sex change that an assessment had found him unsuitable for the procedure.
The Southern Health Clinic and three doctors were appealing against a decision that Mr Finch could take civil action 16 years after the operation.
The Full Bench of Victoria's Court of Appeal has found the legal action can proceed.
Solicitor Anne Shortall says her client is determined to pursue his claim.
"He feels that he's been very poorly treated and that he feels the doctors were negligent in this case," she said.
Ms Shortall says the matter is now listed in the Supreme Court, but is likely to take some time to resolve.
In ieder geval is men flink bezig op de andere kant van de wereld.
Lisa