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A transgender woman, who was referred for gender-affirmation surgery in Germany, says she was unable to receive “basic healthcare” on her return to a Dublin hospital.
It wasn’t “basic” healthcare though. It was very specialized.
Paige Behan (26) from Ballyfermot, Dublin, felt “humiliated” and “devastated” when neither the urology, gynaecology nor plastics teams would treat her at St James’s Hospital – the largest acute academic teaching hospital in the State – last month, despite her being referred by her GP for a worsening wound infection at the site of her surgery.
What was his surgery? A “neo-vagina” – which is not basic healthcare, and is arguably not healthcare at all.
Instead she was advised to travel late at night, while distressed and bleeding, to the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) at Holles Street, which St James’s Hospital said was “more equipped to deal with neo-vaginal complaints”.
Which seems surprising for a maternity hospital.
Ms Behan says she knew she was female since she was 12. From age 18 she was prescribed hormone therapy though she felt despair at being unable to access timely gender-affirmation surgery. She was hospitalised for several suicide attempts.
She was diagnosed with gender dysphoria following psychiatric evaluations that she found gruelling. Last year she was referred for “life-saving” surgery at the Rotkreuzklinikum München hospital in Munich, by the HSE at St Colmcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown. This surgery is not available in Ireland.
Surgery to create a vagina was performed by plastic surgeons at the Munich hospital on July 14th. A hospital-contracted infection delayed her return home and she travelled back on August 9th.
There’s no such thing as “surgery to create a vagina.” The surgery creates an imitation vagina, which is not the same thing. At all.
Anyway, he got his name in the papers.
I think it’d be fair to call what he’s got a “front hole”; probably no better term outside of “gaping wound” for it.
Mutilations are not the answer to these people’s problems. How can they expect any hospital to assume a measure of liability for the medical ethics violations of ‘gender affirmation’ practitioners? Because that’s what they would be doing. These people need intensive mental healthcare, and needed it long before they traded healthy gonads for fabricated, unnatural, useless, unnecessary wounds that refuse to heal. The real crime here is being committed by the ‘gender affirmation’ crowd, who, in their gross negligence, fail to treat the mental issues and perform these mutilations in the name of what, ideology? Profit?
If the surgery is not available in Ireland then isn’t it obvious that the aftercare won’t be easily available either? Why would there be aftercare for a surgery the health service in Ireland don’t do? If the surgery isn’t performed there’s no “before” to need an “after”.
This person should have thought this through, and so should the medics referring him.
So he found the mental health exam ‘grueling’, did he? Poor little guy. I’m sure for the rest of us who have undergone mental health exams, it was just a walk in the park!
I wonder what has happened to the profession that he could undergo a comprehensive mental health exam and the recommendation be ‘cut off his genitals’ instead of ‘intensive therapy’. Actually, I don’t wonder. I’ve seen it happen, and I guess that question is only rhetorical.
St. James’s and the NMH are three miles apart. According to Google maps that’s a sixteen-minute journey on a Saturday afternoon with the usual traffic. At night, with little else on the road, you could shave five minutes off that time.
Unless Behan was literally at risk of bleeding to death, ten or fifteen minutes more makes absolutely no difference. This is attention seeking at its most blatant.
Then Behan was hallucinating from age 12. ‘Female’ refers to a specific body type, and if he had that body type, he would not have needed surgery to become that body type.
Behan’s looking at this from the wrong angle. He was told that the NMH was better equipped to deal with his complaint. The NMH is the National Maternity Hospital, a medical facility specifically for women. That’s the ultimate validation. Never bloody happy, are they!