Transgender Man Says Surgery Denied at Catholic Hospital
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/transgender-man-surgery-denied-catholic-hospital-44572048
A transgender man sued a Roman Catholic hospital in New Jersey on Thursday after he says it cited religion in refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy procedure he said was medically necessary as part of his gender transition.
Jionni Conforti's sex and gender discrimination lawsuit comes at the same time as new regulations hailed as groundbreaking anti-discrimination protections for transgender individuals have come under legal attack from religious groups.
Conforti, 33, of Totowa, had scheduled the surgery at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson in 2015. But he alleges in the federal lawsuit that a hospital administrator then told him the procedure to remove the uterus he was born with couldn't be done because it was a "Catholic hospital."
"I felt completely disrespected as a person," said Conforti, whose transition began in 2004. "That's not how any hospital should treat any person regardless of who they are. A hospital is a place where you should feel safe and taken care of. Instead I felt like I was rejected and humiliated."
This is what the RCC is fighting for. The "right" to hate and discriminate. The "right" to refuse to provide a service to someone because they think that person is violating the teachings of their church.
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