“Ontario Must Pay for Surgery to Give Trans Resident Both Penis and Vagina”
April 28th, 2025Walking into surgery and throwing money in the air: "Bonus holes are on me!"
— Jeff Wells (@JeffWellsRigInt) April 27, 2025
Via: National Post:
Ontario’s top court has ruled the province must cover the cost of a penile-sparing vaginoplasty for a transgender resident who does not identify as exclusively female or male and who wishes to have both genitalia.
In a unanimous decision released this week, a three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed a lower court’s ruling that the novel phallus-preserving surgery qualifies as an insured service under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.
The latest ruling is the third unanimous decision in favour of the patient, identified as K.S. in court records.