GLP - We’re suing a hospital for trans discrimination

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https://goodlawproject.org/were-suing-a-hospital-for-trans-discrimination/

“In May 2025, Lisa* was booked in for surgery to have her testes removed due to chronic pain. But a week before the operation was going to take place, the hospital called to say the surgery was cancelled.

The hospital claimed they couldn’t operate because the surgery was classed as gender-affirming care. But surgery for pain has nothing to do with gender-affirming care, and refusing to treat someone just because of their gender identity is discrimination.”

Jolyon's missed the point by a nautical mile here - surely this is the most gender affirming thing that has or will ever occur for Lisa? Being denied treatment for chronic pain is an everyday occurrence for women! Welcome to the waiting list club, Lisa.

Referral for surgery? Ha! I've been told it's never going to happen unless I suddenly start haemorrhaging to unconsciousness or get cancer.

Apparently gender and sex are different until the 2 collide.

Telling the patient it's all in their mind and there's nothing that can be done, is surely in itself 'gender affirming care'? Most women I know, including myself get fobbed off about pain, like we don't know what hurting is, and even if someone does take it seriously, it still takes years for anything to be done.
This trans identified male has been treated more like a woman than he ever could have imagined.

This!

Esp gynae problems post birth…

Just proves that they don't think of themselves as women and don't want to be treated like women either.

He always has the Sarah Jane Baker option if his testicles bother him that much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jane_Baker

Her testes! 😂😂😂

You beat me to it.

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.

"her testes"

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.

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.

Quite!

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

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.

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.

women don’t have testes.

Testicle pain to that degree sounds kind of serious?

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

Rumbled by that pesky medical expert!

That's just not true.

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

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.

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.