The Court of Appeal says OHIP must cover surgery for a resident seeking to have a vagina constructed while leaving penis intact -
Sharon Kirkey- 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...
The latest ruling is the
third unanimous decision in favour of the patient, identified as K.S. in court records...
- The legal battle between K.S., whose sex at birth was male, dates to 2022, when the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) refused her request to pay for the cost of surgery at a Texas clinic to construct a vagina while sparing the penis, a procedure this is not available in Ontario, or anywhere else in Canada.
K.S. uses female pronouns but does not identify as either fully female or fully male...
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