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Transgender Community Claims Victory in Tax Court

4 February 2010

Nearly 10 years ago, Rhiannon O’Donnabhain (then Robert Donovan) underwent sex-change and breast augmentation surgeries in order to complete her transformation from male to female for a Gender Identity Disorder (GID). She claimed the costs of the procedures on her tax return as a medical deduction, arguing that the procedures were medically necessary and not [...]

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Once a liar, always a liar?

25 August 2007

The court case involving Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, the 63 year old transgendered female who is suing the Internal Revenue Service to be allowed to deduct the cost of her sex change operation, just got a little more interesting – as if that were possible! The IRS and lawyers for O’Donnabhain sides rested their cases last week, [...]

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He Sued, She Sued.

25 July 2007

It seems like something out of “Ally McBeal” (yes, I’m dating myself here) but this Boston legal battle is the real deal. In US Tax Court in Boston, 63 year old Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, pictured above, is challenging a decision not to allow the $25,000 cost of her 2001 sex-change and breast augmentation surgeries as a [...]

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