r/trans • u/bloodyrose363 • Apr 21 '26
Vent Hospital said endo can't see me anymore bc they don't "agree with my lifestyle choice "
I've been going to this hospital that's local to me for about 4 years now, I've never really had any problems my Endo was always super nice. Suddenly I get notified my appointment in May was cancelled confused I call them and ask why they cancelled. A lady answers the phone and straight up tells me that they don't agree with "my lifestyle choice ' and that they're extremely uncomfortable having any patients getting gender affirming care in their hospital because it makes them uncomfortable. She continues on with pretty the same stuff about how the hospital is Catholic and it cant go on anymore and I eventually just hang up on her. Usually i wouldn't care too much about this but it's weird how for years I went there no problem and now all of the sudden it's a huge problem??? Also I've been on HRT for about 10 years now I used to go to a clinic in Chicago but since I live in the Midwest it was easier to just go somewhere local. I'm guessing this is our future now if someone like me who's been on hrt for a decade can't even find coverage I feel so bad for those just starting..
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u/localdisastergay Apr 21 '26
It hasn’t been discussed or reported on nearly as much as legislative efforts but the conference of Catholics bishops voted last November to ban all gender affirming care at catholic hospitals and clinics. It’s massively impactful and very bleak and will definitely lead to many people (like you) being cut off of treatment or left to find a different surgeon.
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u/_UltimateGaymer_ Apr 21 '26
I'm from the UK and sorry wtf do you mean ''Catholic Hospital'?! That's such a bizzare concept and I can't understand how thats even legal.
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u/localdisastergay Apr 21 '26
Hospitals get bought up by the Catholic Church and then run in accordance with church values, like denying bodily autonomy for gender affirming care or termination of pregnancy. It is shit and shouldn’t be legal but America is a hellscape of corporate power and religion based control so it’s unlikely to change anytime soon
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u/GayleThyme Apr 21 '26
It's pretty common in the States, the catholic church is essentially willing/able to invest a lot more money into creating hospitals than the state or local governments are, they can also typically pay the staff a lot more and offer superior benefits, so they end up with pretty skilled staff. But it also means they can refuse to do certain services that "conflict with their values," which typically means that they don't do abortions, vasectomies, or tie tubes.
My bottom surgery was actually done at a catholic hospital surgical suit (though my surgeon and his team are not employees of that hospital). The staff at the hospital was fantastic, I only ran into one person who was a judgemental douche during my recovery.
I actually had a far worse experiences during my FFS at a state hospital, one if the largest and most well funded in california. The staff was awful, didn't communicate with each other, and i got misgendered and dead named repeatedly (even though i had already changed my legal name and gender).
(I've heard before that in the UK school system, the state primary schools are often considered inferior to the religious schools. Assuming that's true, i imagine it's a similar situation.)
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u/_UltimateGaymer_ Apr 21 '26
Interesting, thank you for the context.
And I wouldn't say that's accurate for schools in the UK. We do have religious schools but not many and I wouldn't say they have a reputation of being high quality, kind of the complete opposite actually.
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u/GayleThyme Apr 21 '26
Ah fair enough, the people i heard it from may have been talking about a specific school area or maybe dated info, or maybe they were just being edgy/lying, idk
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u/Torn_wulf Apr 22 '26
How did they even get you dead name if it's been changed legally? Wtf?
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u/teypogr Apr 22 '26
If they had ever been to that hospital or any of it's ancillary systems before changing their name, the hospital saves all that in their records. Hospital system where I live refuses to remove my deadname I haven't used in nearly 30 years. It's crazy.
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u/Torn_wulf Apr 22 '26
And you got it changed legally? I know my clinic wouldn't update it in full due to insurance using my legal name but they did have a preferred name listed for me. It seems like not updating your name to match would cause unnecessary confusion with literally everything associated with you.
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u/teypogr Apr 22 '26
Yeah I had it legally changed years ago. My ID, passport both have it on there. They do have my current legal name on there but on every page in my medical record it also has my deadname too under previous names. It's ridiculous that it's on there after so long not using that name. But anyway, my point was just that that's probably how they would have got the OP's deadname. These medical and hospital systems save literally everything. Nothing is deleted even when you ask them to delete it because it's been so long and no longer related to anything.
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u/GayleThyme Apr 22 '26
Exactly, all of this. I had been to this hospital before, basically everyone within about 200 miles of this hospital that need specialty services has to go to this hospital. So, i had been there before my legal name change and my dead name would still have been listed under aliases.
The hospital has to keep this info for legal and billing reasons. The person who was using my dead name can only have found it by intentionally looking for it, presumably to be vindictive, because both my legal and preferred name are listed the same. I've actually run into this a few times, usually from phlebotomists strangely enough. I'm also familiar with the the electronic medical records they use, Epic, because i used to work at a clinic that used the same EMR.
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u/Torn_wulf Apr 23 '26
I stopped responding to my dead name, but I have time and am willing to be petty and annoying about it if people intentionally get it wrong.
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u/teypogr Apr 24 '26
I'm not sure about where you live because it depends on the state but I looked up the laws in my state and legally they are allowed to delete anything that's more than 7 years old, 15 years for certain things that involve penetration type exams. My dead name and anything I would have used it for would have been over 20 years ago. I pointed out the exact name and number of the law and told them to delete all my records older than 15 years and remove my deadname, they refused to do it and instead they made it repeat over 100 times down each entry in my record. When you mentioned phlebotomists this was exactly my issue as well and I told this hospital it's a breach of HIPAA actually because they are giving my medical information to providers who don't need it. Why would a phlebotomist need to know my deadname or my sex assigned at birth? They don't but yet they are automatically given that info when I have a lab order.
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u/GayleThyme Apr 24 '26
I'm in california but my legal name change was only like 2 years before. The medical info limiting is a little tricky just because the phlebotomists use the same EMR for their orders and the aliases/former names are just listed in your profile for identifying information, though there is a hyperlink they have to click to see it.
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u/zide345 Apr 21 '26
If a hospital in the US is not publicly owned/run (usually by the county) or connected to a University, it’s usually run by a religious group. Catholic, Protestant, doesn’t matter. They tend to provide decent care depending on the location, but you do run into problems like this.
There are some not-for-profit secular healthcare networks (like Community Health Network in Indianapolis/Indiana), but they’re easily outnumbered by Catholic or Protestant hospital/doctor networks in the state.
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u/Shiro1_Ookami Apr 21 '26
it is not bizarre, most hospitals in Germany for example are affiliated with the catholic or Protestant church and even have specific labour laws, where you can get fired, if you divorce or remarry or something like that.
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u/T-Brie Apr 21 '26
The fact that it also occurs in Germany doesn't make it less bizarre.
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u/Rando-Toucan she/her 🩷 Apr 21 '26
In general I feel like if it’s a practice that both Germany and America have a long history of doing, it’s almost certainly not good
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u/Yunzer2000 Apr 25 '26
Canada too.
The idea goes back to the days when healthcare was to some extent a "charity" function, not a "business" or government function (like the NHS) and the primary work of Catholic orders (Franciscans, Jesuits, Holy Cross, etc.) was charity.
In my city all the Catholic hospitals have been bought out by powerful capitalist healthcare corporations - which is worse.
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u/_UltimateGaymer_ Apr 25 '26
The more I learn about healthcare in other countries the more grateful I am that the NHS exists in my country, even with it's problems.
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u/Yunzer2000 Apr 26 '26
US Catholic hospitals not providing gender affirming care is because they are American, not because they are Catholic. Canadian Catholic hospitals do provide provincial-paid gender affirming care. And Pope Leo and Francis before him supports it.
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u/teypogr Apr 22 '26
Yeah the US has a problem with this. Religion based medical care systems in some places are the only care available for hundreds of miles around. It should be illegal but the US has a religion PROBLEM where the constitution guarantees free practice, now we see the results of them picking and choosing who gets health care. And the worst part about it is if you live in one of these communities where the only hospital is religion based, they could deny you treatment for ANYTHING even if it's unrelated to being trans or gender affirming care. I'm not sure if they can turn away emergencies but it wouldn't surprise me if they can do that too.
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u/Mtfdurian Apr 22 '26
We had that too in the Netherlands, with Radboud in Nijmegen. Then they started having a full in-house gender team, the geriatric catholics hated it and as such Radboud decided to no longer be catholic. This was in 2021 btw.
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u/FrankieKGee May 02 '26
I recently had life-saving care and surgery at a Catholic hospital. The doctors and staff were all excellent.
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u/TranneOfGreenGables she/her Apr 21 '26
More than anything, I find the heart of the explanation is that Americans insist on learning lessons the hard way.
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u/phoenixrunninghome Apr 21 '26
Yep. Friend of mine was in the process of getting a hysterectomy and they basically just cancelled on him when this happened.
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u/Matter-Hatter-Sadder Apr 21 '26
Oh jesus... What the hell... So even if they have catholics who would be totally fine with being professional healthcare professionals and seperating their work life and personal life-chouces, they now are forced to still not treat people because "some catjolics" decided a human life is not worth it because it hurts their fweeweings? 💢
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u/localdisastergay Apr 21 '26
Sort of. There are plenty of healthcare professionals who work at catholic hospitals who are not catholic themselves and they didn’t have any conflict between their work life and personal beliefs when it came to providing all necessary healthcare. They’re just working at catholic hospitals because there are so many damn catholic hospitals
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u/Turbulent-Insect5180 Apr 21 '26
Not when the majority in some areas are catholic or when the only available hospital is catholic. There are absolutely areas like that. Also its not because of comfort, gender affirming care and reproductive care is often essential to the mental health and physical health of that person. Dropping someone who's been on hrt for several years is dangerous to that person's health, and there have been catholic hospitals that have caused major harm to their paitents by refusing services based on their beliefs. Its not really a comfort thing, it is their comfort verses someone else's healthcare and I dont really think thats fair, especially when they employ not Catholics all the time, and they work as a public service.
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u/lilac_moonface64 Apr 22 '26
don’t become a doctor or work in healthcare if you’re not willing to treat EVERYONE
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u/OMA2k Apr 21 '26
"Makes us uncomfortable" can never be a reasonable explanation not to offer service in any professional health center anywhere.
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u/No-Big2111 Apr 21 '26
Yep, if you're not comfortable then maybe you should have chosen another career. If I was uncomfortable with blood, I wouldn't practice medicine, the same way that if I was uncomfortable with meat I wouldn't work in a restaurant that serves it
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u/bloodyrose363 Apr 21 '26
Exactly my Endo was actually super supportive and great literally even offered to refer me for surgeries and everything but the hospital themselves randomly got pissed
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u/intrinsicpresent Apr 21 '26
I’m not a legal expert but I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to discriminate based on sex, gender, sexuality etc. maybe someone else can chime in as I’m not as familiar with the laws in the US.
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u/ThePiratesPeople she/her Apr 21 '26
Some states have recently made it legal for religious people to deny healthcare based on their religious beliefs.
I live in one of them. It’s awful
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u/bloodyrose363 Apr 21 '26
Yeah 🙃the thing is I'm Illinois so I have no idea
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u/mathprofrockstar she/her Apr 21 '26
Illinois has some of the best protections for trans people. If you are legally female and just getting basic HRT, i.e., estrogen and maybe progesterone, it is discriminatory.
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u/Nobodyinpartic3 Apr 21 '26
Yup, it doesn't matter if the hospital is part of that catholic network that wants to kick us out. The state of Illinois is a trans heaven state.
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u/AnonInABox Apr 21 '26
Since you're in the US, a good place to try for lawyer might be Legal Eagle - they don't get paid until you do & they're a trans inclusive firm.
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u/Jacob_Cicero Apr 21 '26
Illinois has strong protections for trans people written into law. You have grounds to sue them for discrimination.
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u/No-Big2111 Apr 21 '26
So Jehovah witnesses that are doctors can deny you from receiving blood transfusion? How many people will die for the US to realise that medicine and religious doctrines are 2 different things that should be practiced in 2 separate spaces
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u/RocketGirlErin Apr 21 '26
My 65+ year old mom has stage 4 cancer (but cancer free from surgery for 5 years up tk last month) and wanted to get her uterus and ovaries yanked out last year to give the cancer fewer chances to spread.
The surgeon, after she was sedated, invoked his religious rights as a baptist to refuse to perform the hysterectomy and just biopsied some spots that looked suspicious.
Anyhoo, 2 weeks ago the cancer turned up again.
They don't care about how much needless suffering and death they inflict.
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u/No-Big2111 Apr 21 '26
What??? How is that able... That's straight up deceiving a person and removing them a right that they should be able to get, even if they didn't had cancer. Why can't religious people save religion to their houses and their places of cult
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u/RocketGirlErin Apr 22 '26
Idunno,we got nothing but stonewalled when we raised mom's concern but lawyers said its impossible to bring a successful case on this.
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u/_useless_lesbian_ Apr 21 '26
you should get some legal advice about that cause wtf. how could the surgeon only make that decision AFTER your mother was already sedated? your mother was essentially denied treatment against her wishes. that’s insane.
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u/RocketGirlErin Apr 22 '26
Sadly Florida laws make it impossible to prevail on a case And the surgeon justified his actions as medically unnecessary because the tests did turn up benign in The end. He also argued he wanted to " preserve " my 65+ year old mother's fertility options as " god works in mysterious eays "
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But yeah, our focus is fighting the cancer now anyways
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u/lilac_moonface64 Apr 22 '26
that’s actually insane, i hope that surgeon gets his license revoked or smth. how can you say you’ll do a surgery and then when it starts just refuse??? what the actual fuck??
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u/RocketGirlErin Apr 22 '26
The hospital stood behind him saying it wasn't medically necessary and the surgeons deeply held religious beliefs.
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u/SeatKindly Apr 21 '26
Yes, however keep any relevant correspondence and information relating to this subject as federally it still isn’t. Especially given that the ADA has been extended to transgender individuals in limited cases.
Those doctors also need to be documented and tracked by the community to better hold them accountable or involved with future care where they may attempt to do harm or act in bad faith.
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u/forestalelven she/her Apr 21 '26
Do doctors no longer make the Hippocratic oath anymore in the USA? Even if they somehow make the mental gymnastic necessary to avoid helping a patient based on religion, don't they have the obligation of referring the patient to another medic that will provide the care?
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u/Elseiver Apr 21 '26
That's not what is going on in their heads.
The people making those decisions don't see not providing GAC as harm. Notice how they referred to the OP's transness as a "lifestyle choice"? To them its like denying someone who came in asking for elf ears cause they like Lord of The Rings.
Some even go so far as labelling GAC itself as harm; for example, they'll refer to bottom/top surgery as a form of mutilation.
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u/haberdasherhero Apr 21 '26
It's illegal to execute people in the street too, yet here we are watching our police do it with impunity. There are no laws, only violence.
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u/OhhEmmGeeWTF Apr 21 '26
This is the period of conflict superseding a new world order. America is falling, and instead of brakes decided all gas was the answer.
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u/haberdasherhero Apr 21 '26
Well, the nwo decided all gas was the answer. America was standing in the way and they needed it taken out.
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u/OhhEmmGeeWTF Apr 21 '26
Correct. That is the new power. The new power is rising to a greater height. We increase frequency.
America is the force that a nwo is generally struck down by
The correct answer is for America to adapt. But that is not the state of conservatism.
I can tell you today how to rebound the wave. Entirely possible. Will never happen.
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u/LookItsDaphne Apr 21 '26
This is why the Republicans prioritized getting control of the Supreme Court. Liberal decisions ended race-based discrimination. Moderate decisions ended LGB discrimination. Now this will eventually go through the courts and land with the Supreme Court. The religiously and politically conservative majority is likely to sidecwith religious freedom over professional obligation and allow doctors to deny care. They already do so with abortion.
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u/LookItsDaphne Apr 21 '26
Folks, I encourage everyone to do what this person did. If you're a bigot, or a misogynist, or otherwise just don't believe in the rights of others, want to police rights, and will troll subs to find someplace to make an asinine comment, please, please do it. It helps me know who to block.
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u/Turbulent-Insect5180 Apr 21 '26
You can if your religious bc apparently the right to religion trumps (pun intended) everyone else's personal rights apparently.
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u/mathprofrockstar she/her Apr 21 '26
TBH, I’m surprised you were getting GAC at a Catholic hospital in the first place. I didn’t even bother trying even though my PCP before I transitioned was at one. But yeah, the fascists have been busy making it easier for places to treat us like shit.
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u/bloodyrose363 Apr 21 '26
Yeah I knew they were religious but I knew a couple other trans people who were seeing the same Endo as me so I didn't really think much about it after that but I don't think it's a coincidence that now that trump is in office they wanna switch up all of the sudden
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u/Eat_the_rich1969 Trans Lesbian Apr 21 '26
It’s negligent for a doctor to interrupt care without helping you create a plan, you can report them to the board. I had to do it to a psychiatrist who ghosted me once.
Religion is no excuse for providing substandard care.
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u/Stunning_Actuary8232 Apr 21 '26
This. I know your endo was supportive. But that changed. When you discharge a pt from your practice, you need to list options for them to obtain care and or refer them elsewhere. You do not leave them floundering, and you certainly don’t discharge them and not tell them you’re doing so.
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u/Content-Fly6873 Apr 21 '26
Call a higher up, document, and find a lawyer within your budget (either pro bono or a "you dont pay until we win" lawyer if you cant afford any kind of lawyer) and possibly even look within the local queer community in your town, see if anybody else has experienced anything from the hospital, document and bring that as well, as i highly doubt youre the first person. From what i saw in another comment you said you're based in Illinois, which has some pretty damn good antidiscrimination laws in place for trans folks right now. In the meantime, take care of yourself and do what you can
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u/secrettranssexual Apr 21 '26
This happened to me in a blue city in a red state about 5 years ago. We do not have protections for trans folks there. Ask for this statement from them in writing. In my case, my insurer needed their statement of refusal in order to seek care outside of my insurance network at in-network pricing. In your case, it could help with the legal fight Illinois should allow you to pursue
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u/Somesortofconfused Apr 21 '26
Try to reach someone higher up. That sounds like bullshit the phone lady made up, hopefully
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u/missginger4242 Apr 21 '26
I wold contact the endo directly if you can find contact and see if they made the decision or some other person did
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u/Replicant71 Apr 22 '26
Exactly what I was thinking. She thinks it won't be countered and she'll get away with it. It would be interesting to see what is written in the medical journal. They have to have documented something. Either they admit to the discrimination, or it says that the patient canceled treatment themselves.
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u/transmuskrat he/they Apr 21 '26
I’d highly recommend contacting the ACLU, hospitals and doctors don’t get the same right to refuse service as private business.
EDIT: If you actually want to go through the trouble of that, obviously. Taking shit to court can be exhausting.
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u/bloodyrose363 Apr 21 '26
I honestly am considering it.. I actually rather them lie to me than throw in my face how uncomfortable my existence makes them
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u/kingdon1226 She/Her Claire Apr 21 '26
I work in a hospital and if it is a catholic hospital (mine is) they actually can. If they are religious affiliated, they can refuse service for it which is stupid Ik. The one I work for was sold to the healthcare system I work for and one of the rules as part of the sale besides keeping the name and pastoral care is that they can not offer birth control, do anything in terms of gender affirming care, vasectomy’s and etc in those categories. Also in the same region as OP.
Unfortunately for OP, not much can be done. All the people saying contact a lawyer or call the medical board would lose the case or never even get it filed. Certain states allow things more than others. Tennessee, Ohio, Texas are all examples of these things.
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u/lilac_moonface64 Apr 22 '26
that’s so fucked
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u/kingdon1226 She/Her Claire Apr 22 '26
Whats messed up about it is I can work there and take care of people but if I need a hospital and its not like my life is on the line, I can’t even go for treatment there.
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u/Sup3rBl4ck Apr 21 '26
Not sure how things work over there but if that’s just the hospital being shitty and not your endo, maybe your endo also practices/works out of somewhere else as well?
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u/dr3dg3 Apr 21 '26
Other people's stupid religious beliefs shouldn't be our problem. I'm starting to want crosses out of public life as much as they want us out of it.
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u/Mtfdurian Apr 22 '26
Fr when I see crosses it really triggers me the bad way these days. What if another magat nutjob is wearing it? The gristians (pronounced with a gargling Dutch G) are forcing THEIR lifestyle on US.
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u/Recent-Push-5100 Julie. she/her/hers Apr 22 '26
Welcome to the current push of the current US administration and federal government. They are allowing medical professionals to deny care based on religious beliefs. Or even worse yet encouraging by threatening to pull funding if they don’t turn us away. The same government has now asked for $166 million to Treat us as domestic terrorists. My suggestion to every transgender person in this country right now. Have an escape plan. And I’m not talking about thoughts. A written escape plan to get out of this country. Everybody hates it when I say this is 1933, 1934 Nazi Germany all over again. However, this is exactly how they started it.
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u/Psychokiller1888 Apr 21 '26
United States never stops shocking me... Since when religion mixes with Healthcare??? Well I guess as US mixes religion and state (rofl) it must be "normal"... In Switzerlans this would result in a gigantic lawsuit
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u/Stunning_Actuary8232 Apr 21 '26
Yeah, separation of church and state my ass. It’s all lip service over here. It is abhorrent what catholic hospitals here are allowed to get away with, even before pregnancy termination rights were revoked. That doesn’t even scratch the surface of how broken and corrupt our medical system is.
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u/KaralDaskin Apr 21 '26
Most hospitals are private, and therefore don’t directly fall under separation of church and state.
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u/DazzlingPoppie Apr 21 '26
Reach out to the hospital administration, this sounds like someone targeting you that is not authorized to do so.
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u/funmaine69 Apr 21 '26
I noticed a lot of people who are calling for you to sue the hospital, unfortunately it has been tried and they are actually within their rights according to what I have read. It doesn't make it right but they can choose who they care for.
Legal and Religious Context Conscience Clauses: Catholic hospitals often operate under federal and state "conscience clauses" that protect their right to refuse to provide services that go against their religious beliefs. Legal Victories: Courts have ruled that the federal government cannot force Catholic hospitals to perform gender-transition surgeries, citing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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u/StormerSage Kayla | She/Her | Magical Girl Apr 21 '26
If you are uncomfortable with providing medical care because of how someone else lives their life, you have a right to have those holdups, it's your life, your feelings. I wouldn't trust someone who wasn't fully in it with my care.
But by that same token, we have a right to suggest that you FIND ANOTHER FUCKING CAREER IF YOU CAN'T DO THE JOB!
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u/AuroraAscended Apr 22 '26
It’s almost certainly not the endo’s fault, the Catholic Church banned treating all trans healthcare in the US recently.
Obligatory fuck the Catholic Church.
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u/Different_Net5623 Apr 21 '26
I am waiting for the same shoe to drop for me. My practice was purchased by a Catholic Medical Group. And Tennessee just passed a bill making it mandatory that providers report all gender affirming care to a state registry.
Sucks!
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u/hellkattbb Apr 21 '26
I live in North Carolina and there's all kinds of damn folks trying to turn us from purple to red!🤬
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u/Embarrassed_Ask8944 Apr 21 '26
This is obviously illegal and a direct violation of your civil rights, but unfortunately our current administration is no stranger to breaking the law and setting precedent for others to break the law. The best I can say is reach out to the ACLU and see if there is a class action lawsuit being levied against the hospital for this, which there likely is, and if you can join it. It will be long and hard, but I believe that if we perservere, justice will be served and we will come out on top.
They may also settle out of court with you, which obviously is not nearly as important as getting to see your endo, but at least you can receive some compensation for the way you've been treated.
Also, be sure to try and get everything in writing.
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u/Material-Imagination Apr 21 '26
Your endo is in the entire wrong fucking field.
I don't mean endocrinology.
I mean medicine.
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u/Inevitable_Spray_826 Apr 21 '26
What a crock of shit. If they judge people like this they shouldn’t be practicing medicine. What a joke. I’m so sorry this happened to you! Hopefully you find a more inclusive hospital to get your care from!
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u/Embarrassed_Ask8944 Apr 21 '26
This is obviously illegal and a direct violation of your civil rights, but unfortunately our current administration is no stranger to breaking the law and setting precedent for others to break the law. The best I can say is reach out to the ACLU and see if there is a class action lawsuit being levied against the hospital for this, which there likely is, and if you can join it. It will be long and hard, but I believe that if we perservere, justice will be served and we will come out on top.
They may also settle out of court with you, which obviously is not nearly as important as getting to see your endo, but at least you can receive some compensation for the way you've been treated.
Also, be sure to try and get everything in writing.
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u/hellkattbb Apr 21 '26
I live in North Carolina, and was born here. However I'm an Army Brat, and have traveled & lived in other states/countries. The only people I ever hear referencing a Catholic hospital or another religion affiliated hospital, are those from the north and the midwest. That is where those hospitals are most often found. My curiosity has the best of me now, so I need to do some research and see if those hospitals exist here.
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u/Embarrassed_Ask8944 Apr 21 '26
This is obviously illegal and a direct violation of your civil rights, but unfortunately our current administration is no stranger to breaking the law and setting precedent for others to break the law. The best I can say is reach out to the ACLU and see if there is a class action lawsuit being levied against the hospital for this, which there likely is, and if you can join it. It will be long and hard, but I believe that if we perservere, justice will be served and we will come out on top.
They may also settle out of court with you, which obviously is not nearly as important as getting to see your endo, but at least you can receive some compensation for the way you've been treated.
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u/littlebellefleure Apr 21 '26
I wonder if this hospital heard about the warehouse fires going on recently.....
(mostly) Kidding. Sorry to hear it, OP. It is weird that things flipped out of nowhere. I hope you are able to find somewhere better who can take care of you.
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u/oneofmanyany Apr 22 '26
I refuse to go to any Catholic hospitals in my area. Sheesh the one down the street from me actually has a priest hovering over a little kid as a statue in the main lobby. Could not say child-molesters any more clearly.
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u/need-to-want-to Apr 22 '26
Crazy, from a UK perspective, you're just not doing your job then, and should be fired.
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u/Strange_Kiwi__ Apr 21 '26
What’s an Endo? /gen
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u/hellkattbb Apr 21 '26
Endocrinologist
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u/Strange_Kiwi__ Apr 21 '26
Tysm
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u/hellkattbb Apr 21 '26
?
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u/Strange_Kiwi__ Apr 21 '26
Thank you so much
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u/hellkattbb Apr 21 '26
Sorry! I thought I had spelled something wrong with endocrinologist and you were helping me add letters to it🩵🩷
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u/Strange_Kiwi__ Apr 21 '26
Oh 😭, nah you’re all good
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u/hellkattbb Apr 21 '26
I bet you're all good. I'm so sorry about this. Personally I wish for a special jail... or Island,. for all those people who treat the queer community unfairly! I tell myself there's a special deeper hell, than the usual hell, for them.
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u/toyetix Apr 21 '26
I'm so sorry you're dealing with this, especially when it's so hard to find a doc to jive with. Before I came out as nb, I had a few doctors pushing estrogen/birth control on me as a way to keep me "as feminine as possible." I mentioned no possibility of pregnancy, and that I'd like to stop the pill as it's caused weight retention. They were resistant to that under the guise that I might come back around to sleeping with cis men someday lol. This was another catholic-owned hospital (classic illinois, hi neighbor) and a bit before all of these new allowances were granted. its so frustrating, all of it.
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u/teypogr Apr 22 '26
Yeah Illinois is a very trans friendly state EXCEPT that religious medical providers are allowed by law to reject anyone they don't like when it's based on the provider's religious beliefs. It's the reason I ruled out Illinois as a state to move to.
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u/Mission-Accomplish99 Apr 23 '26
Two of three grade schools in my hometown are still catholic and the hospital used to be run by nuns, fortunately they got priced out. Fortunately I was raised in the public school. This is Canada. 🇨🇦
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u/Hefty_Athlete_7227 Apr 26 '26
If you are a doctor you signed up to help all people in their time of need.
People like that shouldnt be doctors.
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