Two days before Evan Minton was scheduled to have a hysterectomy, Mercy San Juan Medical Center canceled the procedure, because it was 'part of a course of treatment for gender dysphoria.'
Dignity Health insists it was the procedure, not Minton being transgender, that was at issue."Catholic hospitals do not perform sterilizing procedures such as hysterectomies for any patient regardless of their gender identity, unless there is a serious threat to the life or health of the patient," the company, the largest hospital provider in California and the fifth largest healthcare system in the U.S., said in a statement.
The company argued that, as a Catholic hospital, Mercy San Juan is bound by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services . Issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the directives"prohibit direct sterilization and require that bodily and functional integrity be protected and preserved."
Minton ultimately had the procedure done at another Dignity Health facility several days later, but he says the delay caused significant disruption in his life and put other gender-confirmation treatments he had scheduled in the coming months at risk. "I was forced to put my life on hold because of Dignity's discrimination," Minton said."It was so emotionally stressful. The longer my treatments are postponed, the worse I feel about myself.
Elizabeth Gill, senior senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, insists the decision was a clear case of discrimination: "This is a hospital that is open to the general public, so it's illegal for them to turn away someone based on gender identity."
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