Gender reassignment decades-long wait list 'horrendous'123RF More needs to be done to help speed up the time transgender people have to wait for surgery, says the Agender NZ president. The decades-long wait for surgery transgender people in New Zealand face is being denounced as"horrendous". Agender New Zealand president Trevor Nelley - also known as Tracee - said the country's slow progression on gender reassignment surgeries was causing a lot of frustration within the trans community. There are 71 people on a Ministry of Health publicly funded waiting list for male to female surgery, and 19 waiting for female to male surgery. Nelly said people were able to go overseas privately to achieve full gender reassignment surgeries, but shouldn't have to.

Source: Stuff January 13, 2017 03:06 UTC