The Sunday Times reported that the number of publicly funded sex-change operations in Britain is set to triple, despite the long waiting lists for essential treatments caused by funding shortages. https://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/12/03/stinwenws01010.html
To fight off more conservative proposals that Australian government has passed a law banning reproductive cloning while allowing human cloning for research purposes. The law also forbids creating animal-human hybrids. The law proposes a 10 year prison term for reproductive cloning, and the large penalty is being used to pretend to be serious about abuses in new reproductive technologies while in fact it allows for very objectionable research and bans only suggestions from the realm of science fiction. https://theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1490789%255E2702,00.html