All Posts Tagged With: "breast augmentation surgery"

Reading transsexual to wait for NHS breast op ruling

BBC News A transsexual who started a High Court battle for the legal right to NHS funding for breast augmentation surgery will have to wait for a judgement. The woman, of Reading, and referred to as C, is fighting a test case against a continuing refusal by West Berkshire PCT to fund the £2,300 procedure. [...]

13May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tax court allows deduction for woman‘s sex change

By DENISE LAVOIE, AP Rhiannon O‘Donnabhain (oh-DON‘-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for approximately $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery. In its decision Tuesday, the tax court said the IRS position was “at best a superficial characterization of the circumstances” [...]

3Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in court appeal for breast enlargement

A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital’s budget. From Telegraph.co.uk The legally aided gender dysphoria sufferer, who has been living as a woman for over 10 years, says breast augmentation is essential [...]

8Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued