GLP - We’re suing a hospital for trans discrimination

Looking forward to the reddit threads: "What do I say to my doctor to get a diagnosis of chronic testicular pain?"

This in spades

And if the court case is won, I wonder if anyone here will be honest and humble enough to come back and admit they were wrong. Doubt it.

Will be interesting to hear GLP admit that the comparator for hid client's treatment is another man. They've always insisted trans identifying men be compared to women until now.

We have no idea what this person is suffering from or their medical history. You most certainly don't know everything about this person's medical history from just a short, anonymous press release and it's very weird to assume you do.

Shock, horror, a man doesn't get what he wants. Thoughts and prayers, Lisa.

Bring on the court case. Look forward to the evidence showing the statistics. How many men have nhs surgery to remove both testicles each year because of chronic pain? How many of these cases have tried other treatments first? Why is surgery a last resort? What are the long term complications from this drastic surgery?

It’s absolutely not true. I’ve only ever seen it carried out for cancer and the very worst cases of testicular torsion, and I worked in hospitals for over 20 years.

For pain whose cause is unknown? Evidence for this?

Cos this seems to be like saying that as appendectomies are carried out due to pain, therefore I should get abdominal surgery for my pain, whose cause cannot be identified.

I suffer from chronic migraine. I must explore the possibility of cutting my head off at my next neurology appointment 🙄

That's just not true.

Rumbled by that pesky medical expert!

That's absolutely not true
They are a last resort, and extremely rare

Testicle pain to that degree sounds kind of serious?

women don’t have testes.

It’s actually not common just for pain. For cancer or testicular torsion, yes, but there’s no indication this person was suffering from either.

Orchidectomies are routinely performed for cases of chronic pain. If this treatment would have been offered to someone not trans with the same symptoms (and this seems likely to be the case given it got as far as surgery being booked), then it is indeed discrimination to deny that treatment to someone purely on the basis they are trans.

Why somebody's response to this would be to scoff, mock, gloat, or to not want to see this rectified is unclear.

I know someone who has a malignant ovarian cancer, but has had to wait for an operation date ' whilst funding is sorted out". ( She now has a date in 2 months time -maybe she took someone else's slot whose condition was not life threatening- to me that's fair)
" Lisa" does not have a life threatening disorder. I'm sorry, but I think " Lisa" should be right at the back of the queue whilst more needy cases like the above, take the operation slots when NHS funding is tight. That's not gender discrimination, it's common sense.
"Lisa" can always go private if they want to jump the queue
Perhaps they could go crowd fund that and see how much they raise

Quite!

About 10% of men will experience 3+ months of testicular pain at some point in their life. If it's debilitating, the best treatment is to snip the nerve rather than remove them entirely.

Is this a common thing in men? Boll&ck pain without any known cause. And is the usual remedy to chop their boll&cks off?

What if you go to a doctor with a pain in your hand and they can’t find the cause. Do they say, ‘I know, we’ll chop it off’?

Excuse the vernacular; I thought it was more suited to the deed.

"her testes"

It's just risible nonsense, isn't it!

I suspect somebody tried to sneakily get a little bit of, er gender affirming care on the NHS without encountering such an inconvenience as a waiting list.

I sincerely want to see this played out in court.

My balls hurt and they wouldn't slice them off, the bastards.

You beat me to it.

Her testes! 😂😂😂