Not an awful lot, as it happens:

Appointments at the leading gender clinic cost £900 per hour, I'm told - I expect to have maybe four hours' contact with them throughout the process, which would come to £3600. So if I consider my tax money directed towards that rather than the aforementioned sports/DIY/drink injuries, absurd wars and moats etc for MPs, I've more than covered that since graduating despite never earning more than £16k a year.

Hormones actually cost the NHS less than the prescription charge, so then there's just the operation to consider. Not everyone goes through with it for various reasons (especially if going from female to male, as until recently the surgery could be quite dangerous, and th results aren't always great) and of those that do, lots of people don't do that part on the NHS - Thailand and Belgium are popular destinations, as well as private clinics here.

According to the Daily Mail (not the fairest source), around 140 people have an operation per year, at a cost of around £10,000 (I'm not sure what their source is). So, according to my calculations, based on a figure of 25 millions taxpayers in the UK (which was a guess - I just checked and it's actually 26m), sex reassignment operations cost you personally 6p a year (I've rounded up as the figure came to 0.056p).

So now you know ;)

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot on August 25th 2010 at 14:33:16

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