Woman dies after botched transgender ‘sex change’ surgery

lifesitenews.com ^ | May 18, 2017 | Lisa Bourne

[PROCON]

AUGUSTA, Georgia, May 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A woman in the last phase of “gender assignment” died Tuesday of complications from surgery, one of the last procedures in her effort to “transition” to the male sex.

Rebeccah Feldhaus, 25, who went by “Rowan,” had a hysterectomy and was readmitted to the hospital later after going into septic shock and losing oxygen to her brain.

“Rowan knew the risks going in to all of this and he was willing to accept the risks to do what he knew he wanted to do,” friend Austin Akins said.

Feldhaus was an Augusta University student and board member for the LGBT advocacy group Georgia Equality.

She had begun the “transition” process around two years ago, according to WRDW-TV, and petitioned the court last year to legally change her name from Rebeccah Elizabeth to Rowan Elijah.

A local judge denied the request, igniting backlash and national media attention.

[Canedawg]

“What a sick society in which we live.”

Interesting times...

[thecodont]

No doctor has the ethical right to do such surgery, which is an intentional maiming of a mentally troubled patient. The surgery was not to remove a diseased, or abnormal, or deformed, or cancerous uterus. It was to destroy a healthy organ, and expose the patient to unnecessary high risk ... for money.

Doc should lose his license, to say the least.

Add to that: surgeries for vasectomy, tied Fallopian tubes, bariatric surgery (cutting up a healthy gastrointestinal tract), vanity plastic surgery (installing "horns" or splitting the tongue, for example), etc. In all these cases the organ was working as designed before surgery.

[ssaftler]

...readmitted to the hospital later after going into septic shock and losing oxygen to her brain.

Are they sure it was septic shock? Seems the loss of oxygen could just be her "female" parts revolting against her desire to have "male" parts attached.