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Swedish docs deny transsexual’s boob job

A Swedish transsexual has reported three plastic surgery clinics to Sweden's Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen – DO) after repeatedly being turned down for breast implant surgery.

”The whole thing was both offensive and discriminating. I felt very sad,” the woman wrote in her complaint, according to local paper Skånska Dagbladet.

The woman has been receiving hormone treatments for three years and has undergone a sex change operation from man to woman, at her own expense, abroad.

She was also willing to finance her own breast surgery and contacted a private plastic surgery clinic in Malmö in January last year.

However, due to illness, she was forced to cancel and it was when she tried to rebook her appointment that she ran into trouble.

The woman told Skånskan that the doctor in charge was unwilling to do the operation as “he doesn’t operate on transsexuals”.

The doctor had reportedly also said that the woman seemed not to be sure about the surgery, considering she had cancelled the previous appointment.

Despite trying to reschedule, the woman could not get a new appointment.

She then turned to a clinic in her home town. After attending a consultation with a doctor and getting an operation date, she was contacted by a clinic nurse, telling her the procedure was off.

She was told that the reason for the cancellation was that she is a transsexual, according to the paper.

After the woman received the same answer at another clinic, she decided to report all three to the watchdog.

”If there is any group who should get to have the operation it is the transsexuals, who are so incredibly grateful and completely secure in their bodies and their genders,” the woman wrote.

The woman has previously reported the local county council, responsible for medical decisions, when she was denied hair removal treatment, according to Skånskan.

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INDEPENDENCE

Jailed Catalan politician, Oriol Junqueras, named top candidate for EU polls

The main defendant in the trial of Catalan independence leaders was chosen Thursday as the lead candidate for a European regionalist party in EU elections, a statement said

Jailed Catalan politician, Oriol Junqueras, named top candidate for EU polls
Oriel Junqueras in the dock at Spain's Supreme Court. Photo: AFP

Oriol Junqueras, the former Catalan vice-president, has been in pre-trial detention for the past 16 months on charges of rebellion and embezzlement for a failed bid for Catalan independence in late 2017.

His Esquerra Republicana de Cataluna is one of 45 member parties of the European Free Alliance, a pro-regionalist group that defends the right to self-determination. 

“If the Spanish state wants to silence him, we will give him a voice,” said Jordi Sole, a member of the European Parliament, in a statement.   

The group said it currently has a dozen MEPs sitting in different political groups that promote stronger rights and nationhood for regions such as Flanders in Belgium or Corsica in France.  

Since 2014, the EU's different political families have chosen their candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, known by the German term 'Spitzenkandidat'.

Junqueras was already an MEP between 2009 and 2012.   

Despite being in prison, at the end of 2017 he was elected to the Catalan regional parliament, although he did not obtain permission from the Spanish justice system to serve office.

He faces up to 25 years in prison in the ongoing trial.

READ MORE: Oriol Junqueras refuses to answer prosecutor during Catalan separatists' trial

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