A few days ago, I looked at the calendar and said, “But what do you
mean, it’s more than halfway through May?” My sense of time passing remains disconnected from reality, in a faintly comedic way that makes the day of the week a constant startlement.
Truly startling and not at all comedic, though, was the news that Lois McMaster Bujold has published a full-length novel in her “Penric and Desdemona” series.
The Assassins of Thasalon is her first novel in the world of the Five Gods since
The Hallowed Hunt, but it’s not a good entry-point for the Penric and Desdemona stories at all. (Start with
A few days ago, I looked at the calendar and said, “But what do you
mean, it’s more than halfway through May?” My sense of time passing remains disconnected from reality, in a faintly comedic way that makes the day of the week a constant startlement.
Truly startling and not at all comedic, though, was the news that Lois McMaster Bujold has published a full-length novel in her “Penric and Desdemona” series.
The Assassins of Thasalon is her first novel in the world of the Five Gods since
The Hallowed Hunt, but it’s not a good entry-point for the Penric and Desdemona stories at all. (Start with
The HSE has approved over 200 Irish residents to undergo ‘sex-change’ surgery abroad over the past nine years.
This cost the state over 600,000 euro and the procedures were mainly carried out in the UK and Germany.
Gender reassignment surgery is not available in Ireland, but can be carried out abroad under the HSE’s treatment abroad scheme.
This involves procedures to change a patient’s appearance, such as surgical reconstruction of genitilia.
Between 2012 and 2020, 211 people were approved to have gender reassignment surgery carried out under the scheme.
The Transgender Equality Network Ireland is calling for the state to make the surgery available here as soon as possible.
That’s pronounced Tenny (like Penny)
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