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Cost of gender reassignment surgery to taxpayers less than Senate Republicans projected

PHOENIX — If you believe the figures cited publicly by Arizona Senate Republicans, there are more than 5,500 state and university employees who want taxpayers to pay for gender reassignment surgery.

That’s how many such procedures could be performed using the claims by the GOP that the new “abuse of power” executive order by Gov. Katie Hobbs means “taxpayers will be shelling out $788 million annually for this coverage.”

But it turns out not to be true.

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