A transgender man is suing a Catholic hospital after he allegedly was denied medical services just minutes before he was scheduled to undergo surgery related to his gender transition. - NBCOUT
Oliver Knight is suing a Catholic hospital in California for denying him care because he is transgender.A transgender man is suing a Catholic hospital after he allegedly was denied medical services just minutes before he was scheduled to undergo surgery related to his gender transition.— a medical condition resulting from a conflict between one’s sex assigned at birth and one's gender identity — Oliver Knight, 29, was set to undergo a hysterectomy.
The suit, which was filed Thursday in Humboldt County Superior Court, alleges the hospital discriminated against Knight due to his gender identity in violation of California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act. Elizabeth Gill, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Northern California branch, is representing Knight. She said St. Joseph Hospital — which is part of, a Catholic nonprofit that operates more than 50 hospitals with 25,000 physicians nationwide — claimed that performing a hysterectomy on Knight, a transgender man, would have conflicted with the hospital’s Catholic mission.
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