Sex reassignment surgery (SRA).Toronto -- Unless it was already underway, sex reassignment surgery For specialized articles on surgical procedures, see Sex reassignment surgery male-to-female and Sex reassignment surgery female-to-male. Sex reassignment surgery (SRS), gender reassignment surgery, or sex-change operation for transsexuals in Ontario was delisted from OHIP OHIP Ontario Health Insurance Plan OHIP Office of Health Insurance Programs (New York State Department of Health) OHIP Occupational Health Internship Program (AOEC) OHIP Ownership Has Its Privileges in 1998. Health Minister George Smitherman refused to restore it and was challenged on this decision by a complaint of an activist group to the Human Rights Tribunal. Surprisingly this was rejected. What is this court coming to? No compassion there! One solution for transsexuals seeking reassignment surgery might be to join a trade union. CUPE CUPE Canadian Union of Public Employees , CAW, CLC and CUPW CUPW Canadian Union of Postal Workers all have coverage of such surgery written into their benefits package. All that, and free provision of most HIV/AIDs drugs. The United Steel Workers (USW), which recently established a SteelPride caucus among its administrative and technical staff members at University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, , covers all SRA treatment except the surgery. They intend to keep on lobbying until it is restored by OHIP. Meanwhile, the caucus will continue to agitate against workplace discrimination in this most unlikely of settings. |
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