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www.ambiente.us MAY / MAYO 2008
Cuba To Provide Free Sex Reassignment Surgery
by The Associated Press
(Havana) Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will
offer them free for qualifying citizens.
The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by
President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel,
in February. Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba's National
Center for Sex Education, which strongly backs the new policy.
Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer signed a resolution approving
sex-change surgery that was posted on the Internet over the weekend.
The procedure would be available to Cubans for free as part of their country's health-care system.
The sex education center has said previously that 28 transsexual Cubans have asked to undergo the surgery
and that Cuban doctors have trained with physicians from Belgium to prepare for the procedures.
According to the center, a clinic for transsexual health will be created to perform the procedures, but it was
not clear when it will start operating.
Cuba carried out a successful sex-change operation in 1988, but future surgeries were canceled because it
sparked a negative public outcry.
Since becoming Cuba's first new president in 49 years, the younger Castro has done away with bans that
kept most Cubans from owning cell phones in their own names and renting hotel rooms and cars.
His government also has decentralized the floundering state agricultural sector, raised pensions for retirees
and hiked salaries for some state employees, among other changes.
Copyright © AP & AMBIENTE MAGAZINE. Do not reproduce without citing this source.
Cuba To Provide Free Sex Reassignment Surgery
by The Associated Press
(Havana) Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will
offer them free for qualifying citizens.
The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by
President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel,
in February. Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba's National
Center for Sex Education, which strongly backs the new policy.
Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer signed a resolution approving
sex-change surgery that was posted on the Internet over the weekend.
The procedure would be available to Cubans for free as part of their country's health-care system.
The sex education center has said previously that 28 transsexual Cubans have asked to undergo the surgery
and that Cuban doctors have trained with physicians from Belgium to prepare for the procedures.
According to the center, a clinic for transsexual health will be created to perform the procedures, but it was
not clear when it will start operating.
Cuba carried out a successful sex-change operation in 1988, but future surgeries were canceled because it
sparked a negative public outcry.
Since becoming Cuba's first new president in 49 years, the younger Castro has done away with bans that
kept most Cubans from owning cell phones in their own names and renting hotel rooms and cars.
His government also has decentralized the floundering state agricultural sector, raised pensions for retirees
and hiked salaries for some state employees, among other changes.
Copyright © AP & AMBIENTE MAGAZINE. Do not reproduce without citing this source.
