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Transgender man sues Catholic hospital for canceling 'medically necessary' hysterectomy
rt ^ | January 7, 2017

Posted on 01/07/2017 3:19:52 PM PST by NYer

A transgender man is suing a Catholic hospital in New Jersey for canceling his hysterectomy surgery after his doctor deemed the procedure “medically necessary” as part of his sex transition.

The surgery was scheduled at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, but an administrator canceled the operation because of the hospital’s religious affiliation.

A lawsuit filed on Thursday claims that a Catholic hospital denied a transgender man a hysterectomy due to ethical and religious directives from the US Conference of Bishops. The man, Jionni Conforti alleges that doing so violated his patient’s bill of rights that states hospitals will provide medical services regardless of “gender identity or question.”

In June 2015, Jionni Conforti went to St. Joseph’s Wayne in New Jersey to schedule his hysterectomy. The head nurse in charge of surgery there “assured” him that there would be no issues having the procedure at either the Wayne hospital or its other location in Paterson.

The procedure was deemed “medically necessary” to treat Conforti, who was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2014, court documents said. He had “long struggled with depression and anxiety rooted in the need to align himself with his true sex.

Conforti began receiving hormone therapy as part of the treatment, and received recommendations from both his primary care physician and his therapist that he undergo a hysterectomy. Part of his decision to have the surgery was due to “a possible link between Jionni’s hormone therapy and certain reproductive system cancers,” the lawsuit said.

Eight days later, however, Conforti’s surgeon told him that hospital administration would not allow the operation at either facility. The same day, he received an email from Father Martin D. Rooney, director of mission services at St. Joseph’s Hospital System, reiterating that the surgery would not be scheduled.

This is to follow up to your email inquiring about scheduling a total hysterectomy here at St. Joseph’s to remove all female parts based on the medical necessity for Gender Reassignment. This is to inform you that as a Catholic Hospital we would not be able to allow your surgeon to schedule this surgery here at St. Joseph’s.

As a result of the refusal, Conforti “felt betrayed” by the hospital system and became “deeply depressed.” The denial also caused him “great anxiety.”

Being humiliated and rejected by a hospital because of who you are as a person is not okay,” Conforti told Time. “My goal is to make a change for the up and coming trans people so they never have to go through this.

St. Joseph’s patient bill of rights states that it will provide medical care “in accordance with the moral teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, to receive the care and health services as required by law.” It also states that patients have the right to treatment “without discrimination based on,” among other things, “sex, sexual preferences, gender identity or expression.

No hospital should be allowed to decide who their patients are, particularly when they receive government funds. Denying care to someone at their time of need because of their sex or gender identity is not only dangerous and humiliating, it’s against the law,” Lambda Legal staff attorney Omar Gonzalez-Pagan said in a statement. “In the United States, one in six hospital beds are in Catholic hospitals. These health care providers must comply with federal and state anti-discrimination laws so that the health of LGBT people who walk through their doors is not endangered.

This is my neighborhood hospital. My whole family has been treated here and this is the hospital where I would be taken by ambulance in an emergency and they discriminated against me,” Conforti said in a statement. “I am shocked and saddened by the treatment I received and I am afraid of how I would be treated if I need medical care again. St. Joseph's Healthcare who says it prides itself on a ‘patients first’ approach, completely disrespected who I am as a person and that is not how a hospital should treat people.

The rejection didn’t just mean that Conforti needed to find a new location for his surgery, he also had to find a new doctor because the original surgeon only has admitting privileges at St. Joseph’s. Three months after the rejection, another hospital performed Conforti’s hysterectomy.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholichospitals; homosexual; homosexualagenda; hysterectomy; legal; lesbian; nj; transgender; transgenderism
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1 posted on 01/07/2017 3:19:53 PM PST by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...

Catholic ping!


2 posted on 01/07/2017 3:20:21 PM PST by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: NYer

male pronouns but “he” was going to get a hysterectomy???


3 posted on 01/07/2017 3:24:45 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: NYer
"... suing a Catholic hospital in New Jersey for canceling his hysterectomy surgery..." HIS hysterectomy? Bizzaro!
4 posted on 01/07/2017 3:25:05 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: NonValueAdded

This story was written just so they could write “his hysterectomy.” O wonder nobody listens to the media anymore.


5 posted on 01/07/2017 3:26:50 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: NYer

Conforti’s problem lies well above his waist.


6 posted on 01/07/2017 3:28:15 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: NYer

these are bonafide mentally sick people that society needs to discourage not encourage.


7 posted on 01/07/2017 3:28:19 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: NYer

How does a man who thinks he’s a woman and doesn’t play one on tv have a hysterectomy? What am I missing and how does the Catholic Church play a part?!


8 posted on 01/07/2017 3:29:46 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: NYer
He She had “long struggled with depression and anxiety rooted in the need to align himself with his true sex her delusions that she was really a man.
9 posted on 01/07/2017 3:30:45 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: NYer

If it has a uterus it is not a he, nor is it a man.


10 posted on 01/07/2017 3:31:50 PM PST by rbbeachkid (Get out of its way and small business can fix the economy.)
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To: NYer

Fake Surgery


11 posted on 01/07/2017 3:31:56 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the end of Obama plague is near........ rejoice)
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To: NYer

Fake Surgery


12 posted on 01/07/2017 3:32:05 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the end of Obama plague is near........ rejoice)
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To: miss marmelstein
"How does a man who thinks he’s a woman and doesn’t play one on tv have a hysterectomy?"

This is a woman who thinks she's a man.

Someone on FR came up with the easiest way to tell whether it's a woman thinking it's a man or a man thinking it's a woman ...

When you see the words "transgender man" or "transgender woman" or "trans-man" or "trans-woman", insert the word "fake" in place of "transgender" or "trans". After that, it's easy to see what's going on ...

13 posted on 01/07/2017 3:33:05 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: miss marmelstein

I could be wrong - because with these silly transgender stories it can be difficult to tell whether it’s really a man or women beings discussed - but I think it was a woman who was “transitioning” into a woman (an impossibility, of course). Hence, they refer to her as “A transgender man”.


14 posted on 01/07/2017 3:33:29 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: miss marmelstein
"How does a man who thinks he’s a woman and doesn’t play one on tv have a hysterectomy?"

This is a woman who thinks she's a man.

Someone on FR came up with the easiest way to tell whether it's a woman thinking it's a man or a man thinking it's a woman ...

When you see the words "transgender man" or "transgender woman" or "trans-man" or "trans-woman", insert the word "fake" in place of "transgender" or "trans". After that, it's easy to see what's going on ...

15 posted on 01/07/2017 3:33:45 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: miss marmelstein

She’s a woman. She wanted the hysterectomy to further her delusion that she’s a man. Her doctor supported her. The hospital opposed an unnecessary major surgery on a mentally ill person.


16 posted on 01/07/2017 3:34:10 PM PST by Tax-chick ("He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed." Pv. 19:17)
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To: Thibodeaux

No, real surgery. Real woman. Fake man.


17 posted on 01/07/2017 3:35:02 PM PST by Tax-chick ("He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed." Pv. 19:17)
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To: NYer

Monty Python did a great skit on this very thing:

“but he hasn’t got a womb!”


18 posted on 01/07/2017 3:35:09 PM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: miss marmelstein
What am I missing and how does the Catholic Church play a part?!

This is a twofer for Marxist perverts.First,if successful it confirms the concept that one can actually change his/her gender and that physicians and surgeons are required to play along with those delusions.Second,successful or not it damages a Catholic hospital.The destruction of Catholic hospitals has been a goal of Marxists for a long,long time.I mean,we can't have hospitals that actually refuse to do abortions,can we!

19 posted on 01/07/2017 3:37:03 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: NYer

A man cannot have a hysterectomy. It is a woman in need of psychiatric care, not mutilation surgery.


20 posted on 01/07/2017 3:41:13 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!)
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