http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41832
Successful appeal claimed surgery medically necessary
Posted: December 9, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
The Internal Revenue Service granted a tax deduction to a woman who contended her sex-change operation was medically necessary treatment for her diagnosed condition "gender dysphoria."
The decision overturned a tax examiner's refusal to allow Rhiannon O'Donnabhain's claim because he regarded the surgery as "cosmetic."