by Rupert Kircz
Following heated arguments a transsexual in the United Kingdom has initiated legal action against the National Health Service after they refused to pay for a breast enlargement procedure.
The ‘woman’ claimed that her human rights had been violated because her mental health was at stake and would suffer if she was not given the breasts that she wanted. The transexual who has not been named has been on female hormone therapy and has lived like a woman for the last twelve years but she did not develop breasts which often happens with this treatment. She and her lawyers said that she was being discriminated against and that the NHS was preventing her from becoming a full woman and leaving her in a “state of physical limbo.” Read more…
