By PAUL TURENNE
Last Updated: 3rd August 2009, 3:33am
Manitoba's failure to publicly fund sex changes is "shameful and unethical," says a representative of one of Canada's largest lobby groups for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-identified people.
"I don't believe the government has undertaken due diligence to understand the issue and I think they're afraid that it's unpopular politics," said Mickey Wilson, the Alberta-based chair of Egale Canada's trans committee.
"Governments like to think that nobody cares about the transgender portion of the population, but the truth is we are people's sisters, brothers, co-workers, and there is a lot of support when people are discriminated against by health care."
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