BOSTON - After a tormented existence as a father, a husband, a Coast Guardsman and a construction worker, a 57-year-old suburban Boston man underwent a sex-change operation. Then, she wrote off the $25,000 in medical expenses on her taxes.
But the Internal Revenue Service disallowed the deduction, ruling that the procedure was cosmetic, not a medical necessity, in a potentially precedent-setting dispute now before the U.S. Tax Court.
Rhiannon O'Donnabhain is suing the IRS in a case advocates for the transgendered hope will force the tax agency to treat sex-change operations the same as appendectomies, heart bypasses and other deductible medical procedures. The case is set to go to trial July 24.
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I have absolutely no problem with people having sex change operations but seriously since when would you consider a sex change operation the same as an appendectomy or heart bypass.
The last time I checked an appendectomy and a heart bypass can save a person's life. A sex change operation doesn't. A sex change operation, IMPO, is purely a personal choice plastic surgery.
I'm sorry, I might sound like a bitch, but you don't deserve a tax write off for a surgery that you are
choosing to do.
I've had an emergency appendectomy, I sure as hell didn't
choose to have one. My grandfather had to have a quadruple bypass, he didn't
choose to have one.
I truly hope this lawsuit gets thrown out.
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