Transgender woman says she was unable to receive ‘basic healthcare’ at Dublin hospital after gender surgery
https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/09/06/transgender-woman-was-unable-to-receive-basic-healthcare-at-dublin-hospital-after-gender-surgery/
Posted by badger-biscuits
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It’s paywalled. What ‘basic’ health care does she mean?
Here’s an article you can actually read.
https://gcn.ie/trans-woman-denied-treatment-dublin-hospital/
Seems like she was just treated like everyone else that attends a public hospital in this country. I don’t see the issue.
>“The issue that I’m having is that I went to a public hospital with a wound infection and wasn’t treated because I had transgender reassignment surgery, but I was sent by the HSE to have the surgery,”
>As she clarified, she had travelled to Munich in July to undergo gender reassignment surgery after being sent there by the HSE.
So are we paying for gender reassignment surgeries now?
Person goes to hospital and is referred to the appropriate hospital for medical care, having been seen by a doctor.
What is the issue?
Should an ambulance have been provided? Obviously it was not deemed medically necessary.
I’m not a doctor but with all due respect treatment of an infected neo-vagina does not sound like basic healthcare to me.
To save anyone’s click, she had gender reassignment surgery and developed a post-op wound. A&E in James’ didn’t feel they had the expertise to manage the wound (which is fair enough) but rather than refer her across to Holles St or doing a phone handover, they just said “nah we don’t do that here” and left her to try another hospital.
I’m certain it’s happening to all sorts of patients presenting with all sorts of issues, but it’s poor care for any of them.
Dealing with an infection to an unhealing wound at the site of a very rare and highly specialised elective surgery is not “basic healthcare” though, is it? Nobody who has to go to A&E in James’s ever has a pleasant experience.
So, nothing to do with being trans then. Basically received the same level of service any person attending a HSE A&E dept does.
Why couldn’t they go back to where they got the surgery done? I’m not trying to be insensitive because I’m guessing they got their man bits removed and shaped into something resembling a VJ, but obviously it got infected. That’s the problem with these stupid paywalled articles I’ve no idea really what happened and I’m just speculating.
Her first mistake was going to St James’ Hospital. Very hard to get basic care in the Emergency Department there.
She appears to have been treated similar to most people – at best you are in the way, but mostly it’s like you are shite on someone’s shoes. Personal treatment is ok when you get into hospital, but the gatekeepers are fucking savages.
Activists are creating life long patients with highly complex medical needs.
This is sadly common with all patients availing of the Treatment Abroad Scheme. It’s stupid and should actually be criminal negligence but A&E departments don’t care. It’s not just trans patients but does happen a lot with them because all trans surgeries are performed outside the state. The HSE makes you jump through so many hoops to access care abroad, gather reams of paperwork, fork out for all the extra costs involved, then deny all responsibility for continuation of care and say “if you think you have an infection contact your surgeon” who can be as far away as Warsaw or Athens. It’s twisted.
This is sadly the exact standard of care we all get if we present to doctors in Ireland with anything that wasn’t in their first year medical textbooks. Too much trouble, go home and hope for the best.
We did this with abortion – force people abroad and then let them return home to no aftercare. Easy to carry on doing this if you can frame the affected patients as “people making bad choices” to justify the problems that happen as a result of the negligence.
The policy on paywalled articles on this sub needs to be looked at, how are people supposed to have actual discussions about important topics like this when we can’t read what actually happened?
Ofc the comments are an anti trans circlejerk