Hospital refuses to operate after woman requests all-female care

This is appalling. Every time I have had medical care the person giving care has made sure I consent. Whether that is having a vaccination, a mammogram, counselling, I have always been asked whether I want a chaperone, whether I want a female. My bodily autonomy has been paramount.

I hope she sues them.

And why would a health professional or carer EVER want to care for a patient who didn't want them to? My male friend is a nurse - he always checks if patients are happy with him or would prefer a female, and certainly wouldn't feel personally offended - he (like most nurses) wants the best for patients and wants them to be comfortable.

If this poor woman dies earlier than she would have had she had the canceled operation could the hospital administrator's be prosecuted for corporate manslaughter?
I ask this not to be ghoulish but because if I read the twitter thread correctly she is now to sick for even the (not recommended) open procedure which (IANAL) would mean that this could be argued is a direct result of the hospitals illegal discrimination and personally I think that the people responsible for this should be in jail

He did this, in my opinion, because he felt entitled to do so and wanted to teach her a kesson.

I agree, it's not the first time I've come across similar behaviour by these male people, by any means.

Even worse. It means thar patients can't even pay to have same-sex care.

I'm horrified and disgusted by this. That poor woman. I hope the hospital are sued into oblivion. They are willing to sacrifice her health and potentially her life in order to appease a narcissistic male.

The level of trauma this woman must be experiencing.

Even if she does, her health has worsened, the hospital has punished her and many women will be silenced in future, and are probably silenced right now in places like Canada etc. To expose yourself to non consensual intimate care or to worsen your health?

But while women suffer physical consequences we must make sure people with penises don’t get their feelings hurt.

I hope women get mad about this, because it looks like we are being taken for fools.

I hope every woman now will speak up, to friends, family, about what is going on. That we protest the lack of single sex services everywhere we see them. That we ask what our children learn in school and challenge sexist stereotypes raised to “identities” and so on.

the time has passed where we could be cowered into silence with insults or even threats to our livelihood bc this will impact every single one of us at some point and this is the legacy we are leaving our daughters if we don’t fight it now

time to get angry and stay angry

I came here to start this exact thread. This is absolutely disgusting. I can’t even find words to explain how awful this is, it’s almost beyond belief.

It doesn't matter if they did or did not have the female staff, it doesn't matter if they did or did not have single sex ICUs, it doesn't matter if it is NHS or private medical care, it doesn't matter if you are fine with males giving you intimate care even if you are a female victim of sexual assault, it doesn't matter because non of that is relevant. What matters is that they did not agree with her beliefs and because of that they cancelled her operation.

This.

And I hope she nails them over it. And that the message reverberates deafeningly around every hospital in the country.

to refuse to see a professional based on their gender alone.

This is bollocks even by TRA logic surely?

According to TRA logic, transwomen share a “gender” with women, and she’s not refusing intimate care from women so how is it based on “gender?” It’s based on sex. Duh.

Strangeways19
Because the nurse who this patient considered to be trans was treating her. And the patient didn't like this.
I guess it would be considered discriminatory to refuse to see a professional based on their gender alone.

You guess wrong. Medical care is given with the consent of the patient. The patients needs are supposed to be paramount, we don't exist to validate staff.

I am so angry for this woman and it is so scary how so many people on this thread think she was being entitled to ask for female only care.
The bare bones of it is that due to her sexual assault she required privacy and dignity. She expressed that view and was tormented by a man who said he was a woman. This man entered her assessment room where he likely knew she would be having an intimate swab at some point. He did this, in my opinion, because he felt entitled to do so and wanted to teach her a kesson. Instead of showing this woman care, compassion and understanding due to her trauma, the hospital wrote down in black and white that they had cancelled her surgery BECAUSE of her beliefs that they did not share.

It doesn't matter if they did or did not have the female staff, it doesn't matter if they did or did not have single sex ICUs, it doesn't matter if it is NHS or private medical care, it doesn't matter if you are fine with males giving you intimate care even if you are a female victim of sexual assault, it doesn't matter because non of that is relevant. What matters is that they did not agree with her beliefs and because of that they cancelled her operation.

I wonder what other operations they have cancelled because they do not share the beliefs of the patient?

Then it would have been logical for the hospital to point this out as what better way to prove the silly woman is wrong, as clearly they wanted to do.

And the behaviour of this person, as described by the patient, seems to have been highly inappropriate, whatever their sex or gender

I also wonder if the "male" she is on about in a wig happens to be a biological female who has now been insulted by the patient.

I highly doubt it.

It's 99/100 very obvious when someone is a male presenting as their idea of a woman, rather than a woman.

I don't think that is true Strange. The patient was having some sort of a screening/procedure involving intimate care. The door (with room views straight out on to a corridor) was opened by the person the patient perceived as male (granted with a syrup) for which the patient could see no obvious reason. So, this person doesn't appear to have any connection with the treatment of the patient. There was no screening, so the patient was vulnerable to being viewed by those in the open doorway/corridor.

It is in the letter a few pages back.

This is no different to patients specifying that they don’t want medical staff of a particular ethnicity or religion treating them.

It's completely different. Asking for female single sex care is something the NHS have suggested to women if they would feel more comfortable, for eg to do their smear test. Do you think they do likewise in your scenario?

You obviously haven't read the thread, the newspaper article or the correspondence between the woman and the hospital.

It's not considered discriminatory to ask for a same sex medical practitioner. It's considered completely normal for a woman to ask for a female nurse/doctor for an intimate examination or procedure.

She didn't say she would refuse treatment from anyone because they were trans, but she didn't want to receive treatment from male people even if they declared that they had a feminine gender identity.

It's utter betrayal.
Sickening illegal and a fucking disgrace.
The hospital should be closed down

And that is jolly good for you. And, indeed helpful. As it frees up resources to support those who do care. Just because you are relaxed, do you think that you should impose your view on others?

There should be ability to accommodate both those who don’t care about same sex care and those who do.

People are able to request male care or female care. It’s not discriminatory, it’s perfectly legal

That's really interesting about the beneficial aspects of having a doctor who has that specific knowledge due to belonging to the same religion - I hadn't known about the link with breast lumps.

No.

No they don’t.

They never take a day off. They never have a little think about other people, or the optics, when they try to compel women to repeat their lies.

Typo - single sex exemptions