A DISTURBED female mental patient who has fantasies about raping other women is being allowed a sex change.
Taxpayers face a £2,500 bill to turn the middle-aged patient into a man.
The treatment is already halfway through, with both breasts having been removed. A hysterectomy is now due.
The patient has had hormone treatment for ten years and is accepted as a man at his top security hospital.
A source warned last night: “He is now closer to being able to carry out his fantasy of raping women. He is in limbo at the moment, halfway between a man and a woman.
“He is one step away from carrying out what he wants — and it is you and me paying.”
The Sun has been banned from naming either the patient or the institution where he is housed after his lawyers argued it would breach his human rights.
He was jailed for threatening to kill his psychiatrist and key worker before being detained under the Mental Health Act.
His previous convictions are believed to include kidnap and threats to rape women.
The source went on: “This patient has made it quite clear that a reason for wanting a sex change is so that he is able to kidnap and rape.
“He threatened that if he is not given a full change he will get pregnant, which would cause a scandal.”
The patient has lived as a male since a teenager and has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder.
Hospital bosses are thought to fear being sued on human rights grounds if they deny him a full sex change.
The source added: “In the meantime you have a person who still has female sex organs in an environment where a number of people are rapists or been sentenced for sexual violence. They’d queue up to have a go at him.”
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The hospital refused to comment on the case. But a spokesman said: “All patients have access to the same range of expert opinion for medical, surgical or other conditions as any UK citizen.
“If gender reassignment was considered appropriate, the case would be managed by the hospital accordingly.”
Yesterday, The Sun told how killers and rapists at top security hospitals are receiving £95-a-week incapacity benefit.
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