Medical Funding

• Three trans women went to the High Court to seek judicial review of North West Lancashire Health Authority’s refusal to fund their surgery, and won their case:
  • Are sex changes an ’overriding need’?: High Court grants leave for judicial review (The Lawyer 1998-05-19)
  • Judge backs sex changes on NHS (Daily Telegraph 1998-12-22)
  • Transsexuals win right to operations (The Independent 1998-12-22)
  • Sex-change trio win NHS test case (The Guardian 1998-12-22)
  • Victory in fight for sex change surgery (The Scotsman 1998-12-22)
  • Court victory for sex change trio (The Express 1998-12-22)
  • Taxpayers must foot the bill for sex-swop surgery (Daily Mail 1998-12-22)
  • Transsexuals win sex change case (BBC 1998-12-21)
  • Transsexuals win case for NHS funded surgery (British Medical Journal 1999-01-09)
• The Health Authority appealed against the judgment, and in July 1999 the appeal was rejected.