ACLU suing Children’s Hospital Colorado for refusing to perform top surgery on 18 year-old

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[–]LtGreenCo 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why is a Children's Hospital responsible for performing surgery on a legal adult?

[–]alladd 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Every time I see this nonsense about "necessary for improvement of mental health" I just picture a psychiatrist throwing his hands up in defeat and going "Fuck it, cut your tits off, idiot. I've been trying to help you and you won't hear me so fine. Do whatever you want"

Like the obviousness of how unhelpful these surgeries are can only be overlooked because of how fucking petulant trans identified people are. Any real solution requires self-reflection, hard truths, the dissolution of metaphysical fantasies about the self. That shit is never going to happen for most of these emotionally stunted children, so daddy government just gives them what they want instead.

The fact that some hospitals are now pushing back is incredible. Imagine having so much guilt over mutilating children's bodies that you actually said no to the money for once. A hospital said NO to money.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What do they mean by 'top surgery for cisgender patients'? I thought 'top surgery' was a trans procedure. Are they referring to breast reductions or mastectomies for cancer patients?

[–]JulienMayfair 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Are they referring to breast reductions or mastectomies for cancer patients?

I'd assume the latter. I knew a woman with a small frame and very large breasts who got reduction surgery because they were causing her chronic back pain.

Maybe the hospital can respond that they'd be happy to treat this patient's mental illness without chopping her breasts off.

[–]QueenBread 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I knew a woman with a small frame and very large breasts who got reduction surgery because they were causing her chronic back pain.

"Chronic back pain because big boobs" doesn't exist. Sincerely, a woman with a small frame and very large breasts.

I find it interesting that not a single lady with big boobs, in my country, has ever lamented back pain due to them. However, it appears that, for some mysterious reason, in America a lot of women with big boobs lament this.

The reason: America is an extremely puritan country and these girls influence each other with the "back pain" excuse to get the breasts reduced for no real reason, which is the lite version of getting them removed entirely because "they're actually men in the mind".

The proof I am right: I bet your friend who got that surgery is American or Canadian and you didn't mention it at all.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The ACLU supports pedophiles.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Seeing as how they once went to bat for actual Nazis, this would be a lot closer to their original mission statement of working for the civil rights of everyone if it were the case. However, this patient is a proper adult, so no pedos involved here.

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there's an interesting interview with their 60s-00s chief and how he feels the new "fuck freeze peach, fuck due process" generation of "activists" brought a shift into everything and now it's more of a Trump-centric org like everything else

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I can't imagine how ashamed Helen Keller would be to see what the ACLU became.

[–]LtGreenCo 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

She'd probably be like, "Holy shit I can see!"

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What is "top surgery" exactly?

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Bilateral mastectomy

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ouch

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They use a euphemism for mastectomy because that's a removal of breasts & can imply it's a surgery for women. It also sounds less medical so it's part of the language manipulation.

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

18 vis not a child, they should try a mental health care facilities.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they refused to provide top surgery for our 18-year-old transgender plaintiff — all while doing the same surgeries for cisgender patients.

I wonder what the difference is between these 2 groups. If the transgender patient has breast cancer I'm pretty sure they would do the surgery.