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.”
US sued for complete record of complaints filed against #Catholic hospitals https://t.co/TUvLlCZWvNpic.twitter.com/Zd3MSlaej1— RT America (@RT_America) May 24, 2016
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.”
US Supreme Court to rule on transgender school bathroom case https://t.co/5dU8isvGGwpic.twitter.com/fGRpPsjHHl— RT America (@RT_America) October 29, 2016
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.
Mom sues transgender teen, clinic for undergoing medical procedures without consent https://t.co/KEfIuhQIeNpic.twitter.com/C2k13Q5yCw— RT America (@RT_America) November 19, 2016
Lest the headline appear confusing, this article is about a woman who likes to pretend she’s a man - and wants a hysterectomy courtesy of the taxpayers in order to further her dementia.
That would make it medically necessary to not give her the hormone.
Cucumbers and carrots don’t hold up so well so probably plastic would be preferred.
No. SHE’S going to get a hysterectomy to complete her self-mutilation.
Good for the hospital for standing its ground.
Matter of fact, this is a great time for a lawsuit such as this.
With Trump cleaning house, there will be less chance of the hospital losing and religious liberty being compromised.
“I think she knew perfectly well that it is forbidden by Catholic Health Ethics (and every “ETHICS” rooted in physical reality) to intentionally maim a patient.”
Absolutely correct! It’s part of the oath coined by a rather famous pagan Greek doctor known as Hippocrates! ;)
I agree. I'm absolutely convinced that it's intentional in EVERY. SINGLE. LAST. case of lawsuits brought against Christian religions, whether it's bakers baking a cake, a Catholic or Christian school, or a Catholic hospital.
Whatever.
I am sure it is ALWAYS a set up.
She didn’t.
She did it to sue the hospital and legislate through the judiciary.
The headline seems misleading, but the real reason is the this so-called ‘man” was really born a woman and now wants to have surgery to eliminate her/his female sex organs, i.e. ovaries and uterus.
So it’s a case of a he who is really a she wanting to have the hospital mutilate her/his body so he/she feels more comfortable.
You would think that, but the majority of women take dangerous carcinogenic hormones all the time in order to screw up their normal, healthy functioning.
Very confusing when even pronouns are stripped of all meaning.
Camille Paglia: ‘Transgender Mania’ is a Symptom of West’s Cultural Decline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDVuHsVwKs
I agree with your analysis.
Exactly. Healers heal. Criminy, it’s Natural Law: any reasonable person could figure that out.
You got it, metmom my friend!
Man, why would a man need to remove a uterus?
this was done on purpose to attack a Catholic hospital knowing that the hospital would turn him and his surgeon down. There are about a half-dozen hospitals in a 10-mile radius that he could have gone to. Chilton Memorial is about 5 miles away, Hackensack University Med. Ctr. a top-rated hospital is close by as well as Valley Hospital, Englewood Hospital, Meadowlands Hospital, University/Rutgers Hospital in Newark (a medical-school hospital), there are so many.
Yet he targets the Catholic hospital..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_New_Jersey
Jionni Conforti is suing St. Joseph's Medical Center for refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy on him at their facilities. Marko Georgiev/NorthJersey.com
My grandfather and his generation wouldn’t know what to think of the world today. 57 genders? Men in the little girls room? Denying prayer in public school but allowing muslims to have their own time and room to prey, er, pray?
They would be appalled by what is considered normal today!
I bet they would, and they would be right.
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