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Class action suit over gender reassignment funding
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Edmonton / iNews880.com
4/11/2009
A 33-year-old woman is spearheading a class-action lawsuit against the
Alberta government over its decision to stop funding gender
reassignment surgery.
The move was made to save about $700,000 in the provincial budget.
Sarah King was recently notified that funding for her own gender
reassignment surgery, scheduled for January, had been cancelled. She
says she hopes the court will grant an injunction that will force the
province to approve funding for everyone on surgical waiting list.
Then she hopes to have the funding relisted.
Currently, there are more than 16 people represented in the lawsuit
and King says that number continues to grow by the day. (CP, ES, td)
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