Sacramento, Calif., Apr 27, 2017 / 11:33 am
A lawsuit has been filed against a Catholic hospital in California for refusing an elective hysterectomy to a female who identifies as a man and who sought the procedure as part of their sex reassignment.
The suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Evan Minton, who had a hysterectomy scheduled for August 2016 with the Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, Calif., in the Sacramento metro area.
Minton claims the procedure was cancelled once the hospital learned that Minton was transgender, and asked to be referred to as "he". The hospital offered to send Minton to a different medical center.
"We feel very clearly that they discriminated against me because I'm transgender – and that is against the law," Minton told local media.