Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 17, 2023

This one's been a bit under the radar, but the US Conference of Catholic Bishops are moving ahead with plans to force Catholic hospitals to refuse any sort of gender affirming care, which would include maintenance doses of hormone therapy for emergency patients such as stroke victims who were unlucky enough to be brought to a Catholic hospital.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/qgqzzx44bmfatwh70u4n5b4rfs7bar

Catholic Hospitals May Forcibly Detransition Patients — Assigned

No trans person should seek treatment for any condition at a Catholic hospital.

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Show threadEvan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 17, 2023

I've been meaning to look in to whether a medical info bracelet might work here.

Not sure if ambulance techs would even understand or honor one directing them not to take us to Catholic hospitals.

At any rate, something to have on your radar. The rule isn't written, but the smart money is on them banning any continuing prescription for HRT in any circumstances, which would mean forced medical detransition in cases where one of us is stuck in one of their facilities for an extended period.

Show threadqueercrip epiJun 19, 2023
@e_urq I wonder if it's possible and/or effective to write something about avoiding Catholic hospitals into a medical advanced directive.
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@science_enby Sure it can be included in an advance directive. But effectiveness would depend on whether whoever is legally responsible for overseeing the implementation of the directive has reasonable choice re hospitals available. The problem would always be with timing - by the time the questions re ongoing treatment arise, the person may already be in a Catholic hospital w/o their consent due to an emergency admittance & moving might not be feasible
Jun 19, 2023 at 8:55pmIceCubesApp