WASHINGTON, DC – The Internal Revenue Service has announced that it will permit people to deduct the cost of gender reassignment surgery from their taxes.
Time magazine has reported that earlier this month, IRS officials notified the Tax Court that it would abide by the 2010 decision that held that some medical expenses from such surgeries could be deducted. It also ended the decade-long battle that Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, who was born a male and fathered three children, waged against the IRS to deduct $5,000 in expenses she incurred to reassign herself to become a female. The IRS had contended that they denied her first request claiming that the procedure was cosmetic.