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AUCKLAND:

A 73-year-old former New Zealand soldier is to undergo a sex change, and the government has agreed to pick up the NZ$30,000 cost of the operation, a report said. Transsexual Vicki Harvey, who drove centurion tanks in the course of her 20 years in the New Zealand Army, was part of a lobbying campaign that resulted in the government agreeing last year to fund a few ‘‘gender reassignment’’ operations. — Agencies