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And the left's insanity claims another innocent life....
Transgender Tragedy: This Baby Died Because the Mother's Medical Records Listed Her as Male
This week, The New England Journal of Medicine published a bizarre story. A "transgender man" entered a hospital with severe abdominal pains. Because she was identified as a man, the doctors naturally did not think to treat her for labor and delivery, so she tragically lost the baby. Rather than emphasizing the danger of placing gender identity over biological sex, both the journal and The Washington Post made the absurd claim that the hospital should not have ruled out pregnancy for a man.
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Tellingly, the authors wrote that if a clearly identified woman had shown up with similar systems, the woman "would almost surely have been triaged and evaluated more urgently for pregnancy-related problems." In other words, the confusion of transgender identity prevented the doctors from giving this mother the care she needed.
The toxic doublespeak of transgender identity runs throughout the journal article and the Washington Post story. Marchione actually defined "transgender men" as people "who are considered female at birth but who identify as male" and wrote that they "may or may not be using masculinizing hormones or have had surgical alterations, such as womb removal."
Transgender Tragedy: This Baby Died Because the Mother's Medical Records Listed Her as Male
This week, The New England Journal of Medicine published a bizarre story. A "transgender man" entered a hospital with severe abdominal pains. Because she was identified as a man, the doctors naturally did not think to treat her for labor and delivery, so she tragically lost the baby. Rather than emphasizing the danger of placing gender identity over biological sex, both the journal and The Washington Post made the absurd claim that the hospital should not have ruled out pregnancy for a man.
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Tellingly, the authors wrote that if a clearly identified woman had shown up with similar systems, the woman "would almost surely have been triaged and evaluated more urgently for pregnancy-related problems." In other words, the confusion of transgender identity prevented the doctors from giving this mother the care she needed.
The toxic doublespeak of transgender identity runs throughout the journal article and the Washington Post story. Marchione actually defined "transgender men" as people "who are considered female at birth but who identify as male" and wrote that they "may or may not be using masculinizing hormones or have had surgical alterations, such as womb removal."