In Switzerland transsexuals who are born women have a legal right to a hard-on once they have had a sex change and are men. The highest court in the land has just ruled that the Sanitas health insurance company will have to pay the 30,000 franc bill racked up by one of its clients who recently became a ’he.’ The federal tribunal decided that the Genevan transsexual had a right to have an erect penis. The client had his breasts and female genitals removed in 1999. And in 2003, a surgeon implanted an artificial penis and testicles, as well as a contraption allowing the organ’s erection.

The trouble started when the patient’s insurance company said it would only pay for part of the operation, arguing that an erection was not included in basic insurance coverage. The court decided otherwise, saying that an erection was an ’inherent characteristic’ of the male sex.

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