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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Catholic hospitals in the USA being sued for refusing hysterectomy to transman

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IdaBWells · 28/03/2019 05:50

The Catholics are refusing on the basis that they consider it immoral to perform this procedure on a healthy body that has no medical reason. It is against their theology of the bodily integrity of men and women.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/catholic-hospital-group-sued-for-refusing-transgender-hysterectomy-85873

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ItsAllGone19 · 28/03/2019 06:34

To be fair to the Catholic hospital, they'd also refuse the surgery to a woman comfortable with her female identity for want of a better term that doesn't get my post deleted unless there was a medical need beyond "I want" because it doesn't align with their beliefs on sterilisation.

That it's a transman is utterly irrelevant to them, it's still a functioning womb capable of sustaining life that isn't physically compromised by medical issues.

I absolutely don't agree that anyone should have more autonomy over a woman's body than the woman herself but that's an entirely different argument to whether the hospital are being discriminatory by applying the same standard to a transman as to a woman.

As an aside, it doesn't mention whether the Catholic hospital performs procedures on transwomen that would permanently alter their fertility...that would be far more relevant and comparable if suing on the basis of discrimination.

BarbarianMum · 28/03/2019 07:05

But surely no doctor would remove a healthy organ from anyone just because someone "wanted" them to. Wouldnt there need to be a medical reason?

CadburysTastesVileNow · 28/03/2019 07:07

Would the hospital remove a perfectly healthy leg , if a trans-disabled person asked them to? I doubt it.

SexNotJenga · 28/03/2019 07:11

Don't most doctors have an opt-out for things that go against their religion? Abortion, obviously, various forms of contraception. None of the male GPs at my practice will refer women who want/need abortions. I'd be surprised if the Church didn't win here too.

anniehm · 28/03/2019 07:31

Certain hospitals in the USA don't perform certain procedures, eg many (probably most) don't perform abortions though mine did. Drs can have an opt out for religious reasons, as they can in the UK, in elective cases. It's not an emergency so they can shop around for a hospital that does do the procedure.

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