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| | S.F. to finance staff sex-changes / Milestone act narrowly OKd by supervisors |
 | | The sex change benefits, which will include hormone treatment, psychotherapy and surgical procedures, require a medical diagnosis for a condition known as gender dysphoria in which the patient feels discomfort with his or her birth gender. |
 | | Yet the sex change plan generated the most controversy, prompting national news stories, talk-show debates and an avalanche of constituent mail, e-mails and phone calls to the supervisors, most of them against the idea. |
 | | Hall, the most outspoken supervisor against the sex change benefits, said the issue was fairness. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/05/01/MN188596.DTL (859 words) |
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