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Brazil To Cover Sex Change Costs - Health Care Endorses Surgery (VIDEO)
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A panel of Brazilian federal judges have ordered the health care system to pay for sex-change operations. The Brazilian government has 30 days to offer the procedure or face fines of $5,000 a day. Will this lead to a rise in the export of Brazil nuts?
Brazil isn’t the only country funding plastic surgery. A few months ago, Trend Hunter featured an article about liposuction loans being given out in Lebanon:
Lebanese Liposuction Loans – First National Bank Promotes Plastic Surgery (VIDEO)
Lebanese women as young as 18 now have the means to fund the liposuction they year for to help them fit into spring’s incessantly hip skinny jeans. “Lebanese women are known to be seekers of beauty and fashion, so they always follow the latest trends in everything, even cosmetic surgery,” sa… [More]
“The health minister was prompted by the judges’ decision,” Silva said. “But we already had a technical group studying the procedure with the idea of including it among the procedures that are covered.”
Federal prosecutors from Rio Grande do Sul state had argued that sexual reassignment surgery is covered under a constitutional clause guaranteeing medical care as a basic right.
On Wednesday the 4th Regional Federal Court agreed, saying in its ruling that “from the biomedical perspective, transsexuality can be described as a sexual identity disturbance where individuals need to change their sexual designation or face serious consequences in their lives, including intense suffering, mutilation and suicide.”
(msnbc.msn)
Read More: suntimes Via: msnbc.msn
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