CAUTION: DEATH
https://www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-joelle
As part of the UK's fight to be even more transphobic than the USA, our National Health Service has introduced a 'biological sex' rule. It has just claimed its first life.
Joelle was stricken with an aggressive lymphoma, and rushed to hospital, where she was placed on a cancer ward. Staff then discovered she was trans, so she was moved to the far side of the hospital, where there was a free side room. Her cancer meds could not be started unless she was on a specialist ward. Neither could her pain meds.
Her family begged the hospital to put her on a cancer ward, it didn't matter which sex. This was refused, and after 16 days, without pain relief, Joelle died.
She was 27.
Just before that, the Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi complained that she had been forced to stay with her mother in the Emergency ward at hospital because of a trans person (or rather, someone she thought was trans) being there. On a MIXED SEX ward.
I am beyond anger here and deep into grief.
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I assume
I assume there’s no liability for the hospital or any of it’s personnel, right? No accountability?
Grrrrrrrr!
— Emma
Some years back……..
I was working with a company based out of Pennsylvania. The company’s CEO spent a considerable amount of energy trying to convince me to permanently relocate to York, PA, and couldn’t understand why I refused to do so. They apparently found it annoying to deal with paying me while I maintained my permanent residence in New York State.
I finally sat down with him and his VP of Human Resources and explained that as a transgender woman, New York State guaranteed me many rights which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania did not; simple things like guaranteeing that my health insurance provider had to cover gender affirming care, and that medical providers had to treat me as a woman. Pennsylvania on the other hand allowed medical professionals to refuse to treat me. If I had been injured in a car accident while in Pennsylvania, the emergency room personnel could legally refuse to treat me due to religious reasons.
So much for the Hypocratic Oath! Apparently some places truly do feel free to treat us as less than human.
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus