the associated press reports that cuba approves free sex change operations for qualifying citizens.

The procedure would be available to Cubans for free as part of their country’s health-care system.

The sex education center has said previously that 28 transsexual Cubans have asked to undergo the surgery and that Cuban doctors have trained with physicians from Belgium to prepare for the procedures.

apparently, cuba’s new president, raul castro, is implementing a long series of changes for cuba, this being but one.