Man Suing Health Care Provider Over Trans Surgery (08.18.22)

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This week we’re going to be talking about a man suing the national health care provider for his body-altering transgender surgery that he was pressured into having without consideration of his mental health. There are some important points to consider with this story, especially as transgenderism becomes more mainstream and surgeries like this become more common.

STORY – Man Suing Health Care Provider Over Trans Surgery

“A British man is planning to sue the United Kingdom’s National Health Service for granting him transgender, body-altering surgery without — in his view — considering his mental illness.”

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“Herron, who is homosexual, said he has battled depression much of his life and, as a young person, dealt with feelings of gender dysphoria and ultimately decided, with significant prompting, that physically altering his body was the only answer to his problems. That surgery, which rendered him sterile and incontinent, was the ‘biggest mistake’ of his life, he told the news outlet.

“Many of his problems stem back to two 30-minute appointments with a psychiatrist at the Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service, a branch of the NHS. In 2014, he was diagnosed as “transexual” and was prescribed medication to block his natural testosterone development in preparation for surgery.

“Soon thereafter, Herron began dressing as a female and going by the name ‘Abby.’

“He was actually referred for the irreversible surgery in July 2015, just mere months after he had been speedily diagnosed as ‘transexual.’ Unsure, Herron turned it down. He was referred for surgery again in 2017, but, once more, declined it. He was allegedly told then that, if he didn’t accept the referral, he’d be discharged altogether from the NHS Newcastle gender clinic, where he’d received care since early 2015.

“The therapy he’d been receiving, he said, was a ‘lifeline.’ So the ultimatum sent him into a ‘tailspin’ and left him feeling as if he had been painted into a corner. He even had family members urge the clinic to consider his history of mental illness, but those warnings reportedly went unheeded.

“Feeling as if he had no choice, Herron yielded to the NHS clinic. He went under the knife May 23, 2018.” (Faithwire)