The following comes from an Aug. 30 story in the Sacramento Bee.
Tuesday was supposed to be a big day for Evan Michael Minton. The Fair Oaks resident packed his bags for the hospital, said a prayer and counted down the hours until he would undergo the hysterectomy that would take him one step further in his transition from female to male.
Instead he spent the day on the phone with doctors and lawyers after Mercy San Juan hospital in Carmichael abruptly canceled the procedure on religious grounds.
The surgery, part of Minton’s transition to a fully male body, had been scheduled for three weeks but was called off Monday as hospital officials were preparing his admissions paperwork.
Both Minton and his surgeon, Dr. Lindsey Dawson, said they were caught unawares by the hospital’s decision.
“I was a little bit blindsided by it,” said Dawson, a Sacramento obstetrician gynecologist in private practice who said the majority of her hysterectomies are done at Mercy San Juan.
“When I got that news, I fell on the ground and cried uncontrollably,” said Minton, a 35-year-old state legislative aide who has been preparing for the procedure for the past year. “It hurt because of the fact that I’m being discriminated against based on my innate and immutable characteristics, and it also hurt because it put everything in flux.”
The hospital, part of the Dignity Health chain, said the procedure goes against its anti-sterilization policies, which are based on ethical and religious directives issued in 2009 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In a statement, Dignity Health, which until 2012 was affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, declined to discuss Minton’s case, citing patient privacy laws.
“In general, it is our practice not to provide sterilization services at Dignity Health’s Catholic facilities,” said spokeswoman Melissa Jue, in an emailed statement. Sterilization procedures, such as hysterectomies or tubal ligations, she said, are permitted by Catholic hospitals only to cure or alleviate a “serious pathology and (if) a simpler treatment is not available.”
In Minton’s case, there is a clear, medical need for a hysterectomy, according to his surgeon.
“Gender dysphoria is very clearly a pathology,” said Dawson. “It’s a recognized state of health,” noting that national obstetrics groups recommend that transitioning transgender patients be put on hormones and provided with appropriate surgeries.
She said Minton is her first patient seeking a hysterectomy as a part of gender transition care.
Minton, who came out as transgender six years ago and has been living as a man since, takes male hormones and has already undergone a double mastectomy. He is scheduled to have a phalloplasty, or male organ construction surgery, on Nov. 23, but the hysterectomy needs to happen first.
Every setback in the transition process means more time that Minton spends feeling uncomfortable in his body, he said.
“It makes me feel like I want to crawl out of my skin,” he said. “It brings me to my knees, it gives me anxiety, it makes me so emotional and that’s when I know that I need to take the next step in my transition. … I want to live as the complete man that I know myself to be. That’s all.”
Ben Hudson, executive director of Sacramento’s Gender Health Center, said he helped Minton connect with legal services months ago while he was struggling to get insurance coverage for other medical steps in his transition.
A 2013 law requires all insurance entities regulated by the California Department of Managed Health Care to remove blanket exclusions on transgender care, but most companies are still catching up with the regulations, Hudson said.
Having a hospital refuse to perform a procedure is an entirely different issue, he said.
“We know that these are life-saving procedures for transgender individuals,” he said. “It’s not up to (hospitals) to decide.”
Mental health experts say transgender people are at high risk for suicide with 41 percent of transgender individuals having attempted suicide, compared to 4.6 percent of the overall U.S. population and 10 to 20 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual respondents, according to a 2014 report by UCLA and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Ruth Dawson, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said officials were “dismayed” by Dignity Health’s decision in the Minton case. In the last year, patients across California have called the ACLU about being denied access to reproductive health care, including hysterectomies and gender surgeries. “It’s a widespread problem,” she said.
Last year, the ACLU sued Dignity Health officials in Redding after several women were denied tubal ligations immediately after childbirth, as a form of permanent birth control.
“Trans patients must have and deserve meaningful comprehensive access to health care, without burdensome and unnecessary preconditions. Unfortunately, that’s what Mr. Minton is experiencing here,” said Dawson, who is not related to Minton’s doctor.
Despite Tuesday’s surgery cancellation, Dr. Dawson said Dignity Health officials were helpful in getting her set up with emergency privileges at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, a Dignity Health facility that is not bound by Catholic doctrines.
“I don’t blame the staff,” Dawson said. “I don’t blame the administrators. I blame the (Catholic) doctrines.”
Minton was tentatively scheduled for his hysterectomy on Friday at Methodist .
Once again, the perverts and ungodly want the Catholic Church to acquiesce in grave evil. Since these mutilations were apparently going on for a while at Mercy San Juan Hospital in the past, I wonder what changed internally that the hospital would suddenly stand up against participating in evil. Whatever it is, we need more of it in Catholic hospitals!
“If religion perverts are innate humanity, doesn’t that make the ultra-orthodox the biggest perverts of all?”
That is the perspective that a friend laid at my feet the other day. It was a short conversation.
Minton said, “It hurt because of the fact that I’m being discriminated against based on my innate and immutable characteristics….”
Dear Minton, your innate and immutable characteristics make you innately and immutably female. Your bodily nature has the essence of femaleness. Nothing can change that. With the assistance of misguided doctors and politicians, you can have accomplices in pretending you are a man, even to the point of severely mutilating your female body to have the appearance of maleness, but everyone will be engaging in vain denial of unalterable reality.
This poor woman has a severe mental disorder. In believing herself to be a man her mental state is contrary to her nature and to her health as a woman. She’s not…
A Man needs a hysterectomy like a needs a bicycle.
However ” a 35-year-old state legislative aide who has been preparing for the procedure for the past year. “ discriminated against based on my innate and immutable characteristic” – needs Psychiatric Help to overcome Her Self Mutilation Issues.
There is a Steroid Dyke (Shannon Minter) now in charge of the White House Tranz-Fellowship Pogrom – who Hates what She calls “Dangerous Outsider Heterosexual Males” (Santa Clara CLE Class Quote) so much – that She wants to abolish the notion of Science (XY & XX) and replace it with Misandry – Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality.
Pander or Perish – the Age of Abomination.
The spool chucker missed a word – A Man needs a Hysterectomy like a Fish needs a Bicycle”.
At least a fish could use a bicycle as a toy in a tank, whereas a Self Mutilating Womyn Legislative Aide would only use it to Harm… Everyone Forced to Pander to such Insane Hatreds and School Children forced to believe such Lunacy..
Thank God the hospital stopped the further mutilation of this woman. If a person thinks he/she is Napoleon or should be an amputee, should good doctors cater to his/her self destructive behavior? Of course not. After all Charles Manson, who killed all those people, thought, and probably still does, that he was both Jesus Christ and Satan — an oxymoron if their ever was one. Should we call him by both those names? Of course not since we know he has a real problem.
Reality is reality is reality. Some things we just cannot ever be, and to think and act differently will only harm us and some times even those around us.
“…Every setback in the transition process means more time that Minton spends feeling uncomfortable in his body, he said.”
Then why “intentionally” put poor Minton under the unnecessary duress of seeking “treatment” at a Catholic facility? Goodness, but there are other hospitals. A peek at the yellow pages would go far in alleviating this horror of horrors of being trapped in the wrong body.
I guess the horror isn’t that horrible. But a perfect opportunity to trap others in the body politic that would play master of the universe in forcing untold numbers of others to do that which is against their innate sense of right and wrong, charity, love, and doing no harm.
Conditions like “BID” (Body Integrity Disorder) and Apotemnophilia (erotic interest in being or looking like an amputee) have deep mental health problems at their root, and should not be confused with changing gender – which is an immutable inherited genetic characteristic present in every cell of the body.
Some people are born with defective chromosomes or exposed to harmful hormones while gestating, and their conditions need understanding and accommodation for their Physical Problems.
However – to pretend that chopping and drugging physically normal people actually changes gender – is simply MISANDRY (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Femininity, and normal heterosexuality – hence the Abomination Support for such.
Expert Paul McHugh, MD “Transgender Surgery Isn’t the Solution” WSJ May 13, 2016:
” . . . being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken—it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.”
“A 2011 study . . . in Sweden produced the most illuminating results yet . . . that should give advocates pause. The long-term study—up to 30 years—followed 324 people who had sex-reassignment surgery. The study revealed . . . 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties . . . their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable…
Paul McHugh (cont)
“There are subgroups of the transgendered, and for none does “reassignment” seem apt. One group includes male prisoners like Pvt. Bradley Manning, the convicted national-security leaker who now wishes to be called Chelsea. Facing long sentences and the rigors of a men’s prison, they have an obvious motive for wanting to change their sex and hence their prison. Given that they committed their crimes as males, they should be punished as such; after serving their time, they will be free to reconsider their gender.”
Dr McHugh (cont)
“Another subgroup consists of young men and women susceptible to suggestion from “everything is normal” sex education, amplified by Internet chat groups. These are the transgender subjects most like anorexia nervosa patients: They become persuaded that seeking a drastic physical change will banish their psycho-social problems. “Diversity” counselors in their schools, rather like cult leaders, may encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery. Treatments here must begin with removing the young person from the suggestive environment and offering a counter-message in family therapy.”
Dr McHugh:
“Then there is the subgroup of very young, often prepubescent children who notice distinct sex roles in the culture and, exploring how they fit in, begin imitating the opposite sex. Misguided doctors at medical centers including Boston’s Children’s Hospital have begun trying to treat this behavior by administering puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous—even though the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility. Given that close to 80% of such children would abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated, these medical interventions come close to child abuse. A better way to help these children: with devoted parenting.”
In summary from Dr. McHugh, MD:
“Sex change” is biologically impossible. People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.”
Surgeons like Dr. Dawson would better serve their patients taking heed of the evidence presented by Dr. McHugh.
God bless you, Mary MD, for clearing this up. I hope this issue soon goes the way of the lobotomy and common sense ways of helping such people take over.
I meant I hope these mutilating operations go the way of the lobotomy — used no more.
An excellent and more complete discussion of the history and practice of Sex-Change Surgery online at https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/11/surgical-sex
The best response to the ACLU’s Dr. Ruth Dawson–offering surgery for Evan Minton–after reading Dr. McHugh’s discussion:
“Thank God the for Catholic Doctrines which are the basis for ethical and religious directives regulating surgeries/ procedures in Catholic hospitals. That directives are in place and enforced is evidence that they provide a vital protective role for patients, and especially in the case presented here –involving serious mental health issues –which will not be helped and even may cause great damage by sex-change surgery.”
When in college, I once had a Jewish girlfriend, who desperately wanted to surgically change the shape of her nose– and she did it, and was happy! But her friends, and her fiancé, loved her as she was, and never saw her nose the way she did! My mother, when young, had a Chinese girlfriend, desperate to get her eyes surgically altered, to resemble “European” eyes. All her family and friends were horrified! Everyone loved her “Chinese” eyes! That was a very important part of who she was! The woman in the above story, likewise needs to stop mutilating herself, and learn to love and accept herself, just as God made her to be– and find her special, God-given place in life! She is mentally ill!
LM – The story of Jennifer Grey Is instructive. She had a great career in the movies after ‘dirty dancing’ (a mess full of contradictions that led many astray) but then decided she wanted a Nose Job – and got one.
Instead of being a distinctive star immediately recognizable, she became another plastic barbie doll wanna be, looking like thousands of others and her ‘career’ tanked.
What makes us unique comes from within – and those who seek external conformity through non-necessary surgery often see results backfire.
‘Sex Change’ is scientifically impossible – which is why the Gaystapo are so gaily inclusive of it – as the More Lies the rest must pretend are true, the less questioning of their own ugly pathological lies will…
Michael McDermott– Thanks for your post! LOVE all your excellent posts! It is so true, God loves us dearly, just the way He made us, and God’s ideas have nothing to do, with human ideas! Best to seek just God, and His ideas and plans for us, and open our minds and hearts to God’s wonderful ways! And get far away from ignorant human society, where some will ignorantly and evilly persecute others! Never try to be something you aren’t, and never change who you are, to suit the ignorant and the evil, who cannot accept others! One cannot “buy” real love, friendship, and acceptance! It is an act of God!