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Gender reassignment surgery cap lifted

The New Zealand Government just lifted the cap on the number of gender reassignment surgeries they will fund each year!

I never thought I would see this happen!

I feel it’s important to note that ‘lift the cap’ here means we have gone from ‘technically four surgeries can be funded every two years but in practice fewer are because there’s no MTF surgeon working in NZ anymore’ to ‘a MINIMUM of four surgeries MUST be funded every two years and there is no upper cap on the number’. Which is HUGE. The article notes half as many people have been referred for surgery in the last three months, since the cap was removed, as had received it in the last fourteen years.