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Trans patient claims discrimination after hospital requires pregnancy test before surgery
Christian Post ^ | 09/30/2021 | Ryan Foley

Posted on 09/30/2021 9:40:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A trans-identified biological female alleges that a hospital in New York discriminated by requiring a pregnancy test even though the patient identifies as a male and says the nurses did not use preferred pronouns.

Trey Lowery, who identifies as a male and underwent bariatric sleeve surgery at Highland Hospital in Rochester in July, is threatening to file a lawsuit after experiencing "discrimination" at the healthcare facility.

Lowery expressed outrage after being asked to take a pregnancy test. As an affiliate of the University of Rochester Medical Center, Highland Hospital requires all biological females with female reproductive organs to undergo pregnancy testing before any surgery involving anesthesia regardless of whether they identify as female.

Speaking with the local ABC affiliate WHAM, Lowery recalled that a nurse asked for a pregnancy test to be taken before surgery.

"I told her why am I taking a pregnancy test when you guys know that I am a male and I'm fully trans?" Lowery said, adding that the nurse responded by saying, "I'm just doing my job."

Lowery first went public in an interview with Rochester's City Newspaper, which was published Sept. 1. Maintaining that "they took my pride away," Lowery told the news outlet that "I felt like I didn't want to be here anymore, I wanted to kill myself because I worked so hard to be here like this, and I'm not getting appreciated for who I am."

Additionally, Lowery complained about consistently hearing "she, she, she, she throughout the whole stay of me being there." The day after the surgery, Lowery received a phone call from Highland Hospital's chief executive officer.

In addition to apologizing for the previous day's events, the Highland CEO reportedly offered Lowery the position of "spokesperson" for trans-identified people at the hospital. Lowery declined the offer and set up a Twitter account at the time of the City Newspaper's article publication. Lowery's Twitter profile reads, "I am a hard-working man and a loving husband who have been hurting in the worst way from Highland Hospital a Rochester New York."

In a statement issued in response to Lowery's criticism, Highland Hospital asserted that it is "committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate, and safe care to all of our patients." Additionally, the hospital vowed that "when issues are brought to our attention, we conduct a thorough review to determine whether staff members took all appropriate steps to care for the patient."

"Upon completion of our review of this patient's case, we believe that his care was medically appropriate and compassionate. However, we will continue to reflect on this individual's experience to see if there is anything we can do better."

Another trans-identified biological female, Cori Smith, shared similar concerns about Highland Hospital with City Newspaper. Smith was admitted to Highland Hospital in 2014 to treat complications from an egg retrieval procedure. The hospital staff provided Smith with a female wristband.

"I was like, 'You're not giving me a female wristband,'" Smith said. "They literally rolled their eyes, laughed it off, and responded, 'We're not doing that.'"

The Rochester-based LGBT advocacy group Out Alliance's monthly magazine "Empty Closet" reported in 2018 that an ultrasound showed that Smith had severely swollen ovaries covered in cysts. When Smith requested the removal of the ovaries, the doctor treating the trans-identified female refused to perform the surgery.

Describing the doctor as "outwardly transphobic," Smith filed a lawsuit against the hospital in 2017, seeking $750,000 in damages. While the lawsuit and subsequent appeals were dismissed, Smith maintains that "they just didn't treat me right."

Smith also alleged that hospital staff used the pronouns "it," "she" and "they" as opposed to the preferred pronoun of "he."

Smith accused the doctor of performing an "unnecessary and inappropriate" transvaginal ultrasound in front of eight nurses and hospital staff members. Because the doctor did not cover Smith with a gown during the procedure, nurses were allegedly "gawking and laughing."

"It made me want to die. I couldn't figure out why they were all in there like it was some freak show and I was completely exposed," Smith said, according to Out Alliance. "They looked at me like I was disgusting … and I felt disgusting."

Smith expressed hope that "a hospital never allows for this to go on again," adding, "No medical provider should abuse you, neglect you, embarrass you, or refuse to call you by your correct gender."

"I hope this situation can help stop some of the issues trans people face in healthcare facilities as well," Smith added. "From smaller missteps of gender pronouns, to much larger discrimination situations like mine — these medical facilities should be aware of the seriousness of the situations at hand. Misgendering can lead to depression, increased anxiety, and can push someone to suicide."

In 2018, the hospital responded to Smith's claims, stating that "appropriate medical treatment" was provided.

"UR Medicine believes that Mr. Smith received appropriate medical treatment at Highland Hospital in response to his need for emergency care in November 2014," the statement reads. "This is based on a thorough review of the medical record by clinical professionals on Highland's patient safety team, a review which included interviews with Mr. Smith's attending physicians and other caregivers."

The Biden Department of Health and Human Services announced this year that it would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in healthcare settings.

In August, associations representing 3,000 healthcare workers sued the Biden administration over an HHS mandate that fear will force them to perform elective gender-transition procedures.

The lawsuit focuses on HHS' interpretation of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act barring sex discrimination. The Biden administration interprets sex discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation even though neither term is expressly included in federal civil rights law.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antipope; chat; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; localnews; pregnancy; romancatholicism; surgery; transgender
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To: SeekAndFind
"Isn’t that a noun? How did it become a pronoun. Now I’m confused."Why can't a noun identify as a pronoun? Or a adverb, for that matter? You are a grammar-phobe!
41 posted on 09/30/2021 10:56:25 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Little Ray

We’re beyond “approaching”.


42 posted on 09/30/2021 10:57:18 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: SeekAndFind
"I felt like I didn't want to be here anymore, I wanted to kill myself

Yep. In bizarro world this is exactly what a perfectly well adjusted person says. Smh

43 posted on 09/30/2021 11:01:39 AM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Smith was admitted to Highland Hospital in 2014 to treat complications from an egg retrieval procedure.”

So she wants to get all upset over a pregnancy test when she’s in the hospital for complications from a FERTILITY treatment?

Just more evidence that they are insane.


44 posted on 09/30/2021 11:25:23 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Bob434

Your relative could be my sister. I happened to mention the adverse effects database and she screamed at me to stop spouting right wing propaganda because she ‘follows the science’. I think that ‘follow the science’ was a very clever marketing idea because if you disagree with what they consider ‘The Science’, you’re automatically a rube with no intelligence because you’re not “Following The Science”. Clever strategy.

Reminds me years ago that the southern end of Kauai decided to market itself as ‘The Sunny Side of the Island’. Well, what did that leave to the other sides of the island: you guessed it, ‘non-sunny’. Statistically no difference in rainfall between north and south sides of the island, but the south had cleverly given itself the moniker ‘sunny side’. Many many travel clients told me they wanted to stay on the ‘sunny side’, not the rainy side of the island.
So, claiming to ‘follow the science’ is analogous. No relation to truth, but it’s clever.


45 posted on 09/30/2021 11:42:54 AM PDT by InGodsTruth
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To: SeekAndFind

Just last night the lamestream media morons referred to pregnant “persons”.


46 posted on 09/30/2021 11:57:55 AM PDT by utax
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To: SeekAndFind

Wasn’t there not long ago a woman dressed as a man in an ER who sued because she was pregnant and in labor and nobody asked her if she was pregnant? She said she was having stomach pains. So, of course, she hides what she is and it’s the hospitals fault!


47 posted on 09/30/2021 12:03:49 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: SeekAndFind

Lying about your sex has medical consequences.


48 posted on 09/30/2021 1:42:42 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: InGodsTruth

yep- the two could be twins i guess- she gets to spout whatever she wants- whether it be anti-conservative nonsense, or anti-religion nonsense, and nooen can refute anything she says- she gets angry and says “I don’t talk politics or religion’ (but of course she herself just got through maligning both- but don’t dare try to point that out)

Yup- the ‘anti-science’ accusation is meant ot shut the opposition up for sure- they think it sets them up on a higher intellectual level- but when you show them facts that prove that their views are actually the views that are anti0-science, they go ballistic


49 posted on 09/30/2021 1:59:33 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

Both trans-morons sound are lying, especially Cori Smith. Someone should have told Smith that having an ID that identifies your biology as woman prevents you from being operated on for a vasectomy. Staff didn’t laugh when she was receiving a vaginal exam. Total liar.


50 posted on 09/30/2021 4:13:40 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Okay, that is what that surgery is.


51 posted on 09/30/2021 4:27:42 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: Islander7

Is that what the nurse actually said?


52 posted on 09/30/2021 4:30:08 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: ex91B10

Absolutely. Both of them. When Smith was having her ovaries examined, and said all the nurses and surgeons were laughing at her for having a vaginal exam, I KNOW she is lying. First of all, why would they all be told she is a fake man, when she’s having her female reproductive organs examined? She is too stupid to even make up believable lies.


53 posted on 09/30/2021 4:39:51 PM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

No, but that would be my response.


54 posted on 09/30/2021 4:48:50 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Look, if it’s there and functional we’ve gotta run this test or you cannot undergo surgery.

Your ongoing argument with your DNA is a personal matter.”


55 posted on 09/30/2021 5:51:26 PM PDT by HKMk23 (LORD, HASTE THE DAY...!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Trey is still carrying a purse. Confused/confusing.


56 posted on 09/30/2021 5:53:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. --Matthew 24:12)
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To: Betty Jane

In the case of the “man” with the unrecognized pregnancy and labor, the baby died.

The trans activists tell us men can menstruate and get pregnant and produce “chest milk.” And now they say hospitals can’t test for pregnancy unless the man with ovaries and a uterus is cool with that.

A while back, I decided that all patients used the pronoun “pt.” That’s how I document.


57 posted on 09/30/2021 6:33:36 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What about his prostate


58 posted on 09/30/2021 6:34:49 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag, and that)
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