Transman loses baby during hysterectomy

Agree, @StephanieSuperpowers Out of all the people in the world, the one group of people who DO know that you can’t change sex are MEDICS. It’s disgraceful that anybody with medical training plays along with this horrific game. Where is their integrity?

Sorry, I take that back: I see the patient was supposed to have had pregnancy testing and was fully aware and willing for that. So it appears a massive hospital failure rather than anything to do with the pregnant mother being trans. Horrific for everyone involved, I feel very sorry for the staff in the operating theatre as much as the patient.

Only one sex has hysterectomies. This is insane.

So it happened in lockdown, when consultations etc were done remotely and healthcare services were generally under pressure.

The surgery was rushed and booked in for only 10 days after the consultation.

The patient was assured a pregnancy test would be done but this didn't happen.

They were asked a series of questions to determine if pregnancy was a possibility, but still no test was done.

I don't think this has anything to do with the patients trans status, I think this is a hospital cock-up.

38 and already has children? Are they still allowed to call her mum?

WTF? We are told so much about the way a trans person feels they are the other sex, but surely the act of intercourse would be too horrible a reminder of your femininity if you were a TM?

This is why we must, must, must be honest on documents and medical records. Accurately recording sex and gender ensures that we all get the correct treatment for our biological sex.

Probably because of fear of causing offense.

This madness really has to stop now. Other people have rights too.

That's just horrific. The medical community should stop pretending that any kind of transition results in changing sex. It just doesn't and I really do hope people learn from this awful tragedy and grow up a bit.

This is grotesque for so many reasons. Why wasn’t a pregnancy test taken as a matter of course?

He should have taken responsibility and done a pregnancy test himself. The mind boggles, quite honestly.

If you are female and having sex with a male person without using any form of contraception, then pregnancy is always possible. For a surgery such as hysterectomy, pregnancy should always be definitively ruled out. I sincerely hope that the fact that this person had a trans gender identity did not affect the decision making process, but perhaps it did. Or perhaps the hospital are not operating properly in general.

My brain just can't take any more of this madness.

And "female to male"? It would be bad enough saying "woman to man", given that's how they seem to want to define things these days, but surely they can't actually believe female to male. Or are those words gone now too.

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"he" was obviously "she" in bed then, wasn't she? And how would she NOT KNOW pregnancy was a possibility after sex?