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Sex change becomes a tax deduction (US)
Sex change becomes a tax deduction
* John Beveridge
* From: Herald Sun
* February 04, 2010 8:13AMTHE concept of a tax deduction has taken on a curiously physical dimension in a US court case.
In overturning existing tax rules, the court found that a sex change operation is not cosmetic and treats a disease, making it tax-deductible.
The court ruled that hormone therapies and sex reassignment surgeries were necessary to treat a gender identity disorder for a Boston man who became a woman called Rhiannon O’Donnabhain.
A civil engineer who joined the US Coast Guard during the Vietnam War and fathered three children in a 20-year marriage, O’Donnabhain sued after the Internal Revenue Service denied her deduction of $US25,000 in out-of-pocket medical costs associated with surgery and other care such as hormone treatments and counselling.
O’Donnabhain argued that her medical costs should not be considered any different to heart surgery.
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