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Damn the DSM, Full Tax Ahead

Brian Doherty | 10.3.2007 1:34 PM

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Expenses for gender reassignment surgery not legitimate medical expenses for tax purposes, say the Feds.

reason contributing editor Deirdre McCloskey on her own gender reassignment, from our Dec. 1999 issue.

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Brian Doherty was a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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