The Land of Cold and Queers
Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more demented:
The Ontario government has been ordered to cover the costs of sexual reassignment surgery for three transsexuals left stranded when the previous Tory government delisted the service in 1998.
In an interim ruling, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found the province discriminated against them based on a disability when it cut funding for the surgery on Oct. 1, 1998.
Ontario had paid for the procedure since 1969. It's now the only province that doesn't.
Diagnosed with "gender identity disorder," an internationally recognized medical condition, Martine Stonehouse, Michelle Hogan and a third complainant known only as A.B. were patients at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's Gender Identity Clinic in Toronto on the day the funding ended.
