Ok jno, as you wish. Should Cosmetic surgery for vanity.....

[R1Geezer]

and sex change operations be paid for by the NHS?

[Sqad]

woofgang...no! no!....if you are going to make mistakes, it would be prudent to make them on NHS patients rather than Private patients.

[eyethenkyew]

For vanity, ie. simply because you don't like the way you look? Definitely not. The same goes for the "Ooooohhh, I was born in the wrong body" - no way.

However, a person cruelly disfigured in an accident (or done maliciously) may have a case for the milk of human kindness (and public money) to make an exception.

[jno]

sex changes aren't "vanity surgery". I think cosmetic surgery shouldn't be paid for by the public except following accidents and burns and so on. Sex change surgery I don't really have a problem with but it should probably be extremely low priority.