A transgender man filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against San Francisco-based Dignity Health after his hysterectomy surgery was canceled, according to a report from The San Francisco Chronicle.
The patient, Evan Minton, alleges the system canceled the surgery after learning of his gender identity, which would violate California's sex-bias law, according to the report. Mr. Minton was informed his surgery would be canceled only a day before it was scheduled to take place.
The unnamed Sacramento-area hospital where Mr. Minton sought the surgery is affiliated with the Catholic Church, and Dignity said in a statement its Catholic-affiliated hospitals seek to serve all patients without discrimination, but "do not provide elective sterilizations," according to the report. The system allegedly referred him to another one of its hospitals without a religious affiliation and his physician was able to perform the surgery there three days later, according to the report.
Mr. Minton is seeking $4,000 in damages and a court order barring Dignity Health from discriminating against transgender patients.
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