Posted on 11/03/2023 7:07:49 PM PDT by simpson96
A 23-year-old woman who had her uterus and breasts removed at UW Hospital after a self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria that she said was not confirmed by a doctor is suing the hospital and two UW surgeons, alleging they operated on her without proper informed consent.
Dr. Jay Lick performed a hysterectomy when the patient was 19, and Dr. Katherine Gast did a double mastectomy when she was 21, as gender-affirming procedures at the hospital, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Dane County Circuit Court.
The patient, who lives in Chicago, identified as lesbian, explored if she was transgender and took on a nonbinary identity to “cleanse her of the severe psychological distress and trauma that she endured as a child,” the suit says.
Within the past year, as post-surgery therapy helped her realize that the childhood trauma, not physical features, had caused her mental distress, she stopped taking testosterone and began to “detransition,” the suit says. Now, as a Jewish woman, she “mourns that she will never be able to naturally conceive a large family, as expected in her culture.”
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It's called *consequences*.
Even had she gone to a doctor for confirmation of her own self-diagnosis, he wouldn't dare have not agreed to it at risk of a lawsuit.
FWIW, I notice that her two surgeries were two years apart. She had plenty of time to reconsider her actions before doing something unfixable.
Indeed. It just goes to show how far we have fallen.
Nothing slows these greedy docs like a wealth and reputation destroying lawsuit. When it is proven in court that they were pompous idiots.
She just now figured out stopping the meds wasn’t going to magically reattach the amputated parts. You need a unicorn to perform that sort of magic.
Imagine being in fox holes with these. The US is in big trouble.
If your gender isnt determined by the body parts you have, how does cutting them off help?
She was 19... it’s on her for being an idiot.
I was already married a year at 19, wife and I both had jobs and responsibilities. 50 years later we still have responsibilities along with kids, grandkids and enjoying retirement.
Decisions have consequences.
Women don’t lie-or do they?
An excellent point.
Exactly. How is anyone else to know the nature of her views and beliefs if she herself doesn’t, but is the kind of person who’d scream at them they aren’t accepting her for who she is? How can they tell her she’s wrong?
The system was completely supportive and affirming and non judgmental, and believed her. The system was able to do everything she requested to make her feel like the person she SAID she was.
How are they supposed to know that really wasn’t her, when she herself didn’t know it then? How are they supposed to know her better than she knows herself? How are you supposed to distinguish when a sincere person is or isn’t correct about themselves, either one has the same feelings and beliefs and both will fight to get done what they want done. She would have sued them right then and there for discrimination.
You know men have dealt with this for years.
Women and feelings.
Try and use logic because the feelings will change and you’ll be glad you didn’t do (whatever).
Try and tell someone that you know them better than they know themselves, and that they will regret doing something they so strongly want to do.
Thats what we are dealing with here. Plus they want all the accountabilify and responsibility totally off themselves. Forget that.
Ma’am, I feel very sorry for your situation. But I’m pretty sure you were legally an adult and actually did *ask* for it.
The brilliance of your question is breathtaking.
(And dangerously seditious, may want to watch out for thought police)
Tuff sh#t. No money for you sweetheart. You’re to stupid and irresponsible to spend it wisely.
She must be an Orthodox Jew, if her culture expects her to have a large family.
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