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[–]Realwoman 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Great article. "His uterus" and "her penis" are not word combinations that make any sense whatsoever. Also, doctors are supposed to treat patients ethically, not comply with ridiculous self mutilation demands. A hysterectomy is not a minor procedure and can have severe consequences for a lifetime, no ethical doctor should have to just perform it because the patient feels like it.

[–]MarkTwainiac 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

All the lawsuits that TIFs in the US have filed to date against hospitals for refusing to perform their elective hysterectomies appear to be against Roman Catholic hospitals specifically. Or at least that's my understanding from the news reports. This seems deliberate on the part of the trans patients and the activists and orgs I believe are behind them.

On religious grounds, RC hospitals might be especially resistant to performing unnecessary surgeries on women that a) will leave them infertile and b) can and pretty much surely will lead to a host of negative health consequences in the future.

But basically all hospitals - private, public, religious and secular - and all prudent physicians are reluctant or entirely unwilling to perform hysterectomies on women unless there are pressing medical problems that require it. Because medically needless hysterectomy can and does have huge negative health consequences in the short and long-term. And because when women reach their 30s and 40s, many find they regret decisions they made earlier in their lives that have caused them to end up with diminished or no chances of having children. It has nothing to do with gender identity or anti-trans animus.

I had valid medical reasons for a hysterectomy for years, but still could not find any US doctor or hospital who'd even consider doing the surgery until I was in my mid 40s. Even after I was booked for surgery - at a secular hospital with patients and physicians who skewed heavily Jewish and East Asian - the surgeon and hospital balked and delayed at the last minute, requiring me to go through yet another psych evaluation, and get even more neurological testing and counseling before finally proceeding. They really feared that at 46, 47 or 48 I'd decide I wanted to have another child - and that I'd hold my inability to do so against them.