Charity Age UK offers the elderly advice on how to change gender after ex-RAF navigator underwent reassignment surgery at 81

Aug 13, 2018 by Jill

by Conor Boyd, Mailonline:

Elderly people are being given guidance on how to change gender after an 81-year-old ex-RAF navigator became Britain’s oldest transsexual.

Charity Age UK issued advice for pensioners looking to have reassignment surgery after the NHS revealed a rise in the number of over-60s swapping sex.

Ruth Rose, now 83, of Newhaven, East Sussex, underwent the final stage of her gender realignment surgery in 2014 after she started living as a woman four years prior.

She is the oldest in Britain to have the surgery, with her treatments and the operation, which she had on the NHS, costing £4,000.

The NHS Gender Services, which provide specialist assessment and treatment of Gender Dysphoria, are offered to people over 18, and there is no upper limit.

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