Problem. You don’t have a vagina, but you’d still like the additional £15,000 p.a. income that having a vagina would give you. What to do?

Yesterday we linked to a BBC piece showing that long-suffering British taxpayers will be paying female engineering postgraduate students an additional £15,000 p.a. – well in excess of the gross annual income of a person working full-time on the minimum wage – in return for the hard work they’d put in to having vaginas:

http://j4mb.org.uk/2013/12/10/taxpayer-to-give-extra-1250-per-month-to-engineering-graduates-but-only-if-they-have-vaginas/

Over our teatime cups of Earl Grey, and fortified by two or three McVities Digestives, we applied our minds to this issue, and an intriguing question emerged:

Would male postgraduate engineering students who have gender reassignment surgery either before or during their postgraduate courses, be entitled to the £15,000 p.a. grants?

Tomorrow we plan to email Brunel University a Freedom of Information request, asking that very question.