FRENCHMAN Patrick Escoffier moved to Britain for a sex change on the NHS - and a new life as PATTY.

The father of five was refused a gender swap by French doctors - but Brit surgeons agreed to do the £20,000 operation without charge.

Father of five ... Patty Escoffier found British doctors more sympatheticSolent

And Patty, 53, will get female hormones for the rest of her life at the expense of UK taxpayers.

The former printer now lives as a she in Portsmouth, Hants, and works as a cleaner for the Royal Navy.

Patty said: "People might criticise me coming here for surgery but it isn't as easy as jumping on a plane. There are lots of questions and hurdles before an operation is granted.

Maybe this is why some people back home are in such a hurry to get a health care system like in the UK.

Maybe this is why some people back home are in such a hurry to get a health care system like in the UK.

I can just envision plane loads of katoeys heading for that free Obamacare in 2014.

It's only fair that we Brits should help one of our French neighbours.

After all, look at everything the French have done for us:-

1) Dug half the channel tunnel

2) ....erm

In the 2007 movie, "Ruby Blue", Bob Hoskins plays a man who falls in love with a French woman who turns out to originally be a man. That's just a sub-plot to the main story but one of those things you don't forget so easily.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816635/plotsummary

S/he's working and paying taxes like everyone else.

If all Frrenchmen want to queue up at Dover for free sex change operations then I've no objection.....

Most Frenchmen are natural vaginas anyway.

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Frenchman comes to UK for sex change operation and ends up in Pompey?

All "Hello Sailor" then, eh?

And down there most wouldn't worry whether there had been an operation, anyway.

So long as it's "Wet, warm and willing" (WWW) that's all that matters.