Brazil’s state-run public health system will pay even for sex-change operations.

Brazil’s Health Ministry said Saturday that the public health system would provide free sex-change operations to citizens in compliance with a court order.

Brazilian lawyers successfully argued that sexual reassignment surgery is covered under a constitutional clause guaranteeing medical care as a basic right.

Transsexuals are said to represent about 0.001% of the population in Brazil.

While medical care is a basic right of citizens in several countries like Brazil, Canada and U.K., it is not so in India and the U.S. where Continue Reading…