Saras World

"Since 1988, the federal supreme court insisted in a minimum of 2 years of psychotherapy one had to fullfill before health insurances have to cover the expenses for gender reassignment surgery. Nadine Schlumpf brought this question to the ECrtHR and won (Schlumpf v Switzerland, 8.1.2009). This morning, the Federal Supreme Court had to decide on how to deal with this ECrtHR decision.

After three hours of thriller or argumentation limbo the court took its decision 3:2 in favour of Nadine Schlumpf! We do not have the written rationale yet, but i think we can say already that this means finally the end of this well hated 2 years period!!!

TGNS is very happy about this decision and thankful to Nadine and her lawyer who were fighting now for many years." ( Communicated by: TGNS )

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