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February 5th, 2008 at 9:28 am

Transgender patient’s right to surgery

John Leo has some further thoughts on the lawsuit discussed in this space Jan. 20, in which m-to-f San Franciscan Charlene Hastings is suing the Catholic hospital that (unlike many other hospitals in the Bay Area) declines to perform a breast augmentation on a patient born male (”Orwell Lives”, City Journal, Feb. 4).

In Bay Area; hospitals; medical

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[...] a lesbian applicant. As Bookworm Room points out (Aug. 19), and as we noted in the earlier Bay Area conscience controversy over gender-switch breast surgery, it makes a practical difference (if not one of libertarian [...]

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