(FW) – A woman in Sacramento who identifies as a transgender man is filing a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital for canceling — and immediately working to reschedule — her hysterectomy. Evan Minton, who was born female but identifies as male, reinstated the lawsuit after a California appeals court overturned a lower court ruling last week, according to the Catholic News Agency. Minton was scheduled to undergo a procedure at Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael to remove her uterus, but the hospital
canceled the procedure after learning the patient was transgender and pursuing the hysterectomy as part of treatment for gender dysphoria. Dignity Health, the medical system that operates the hospital, arranged for Minton to move forward with the hysterectomy at Methodist Hospital in south Sacramento within 72 hours of the Catholic hospital’s cancellation, according to The Sacramento Bee. In fact, Minton’s surgeon, Dr. Lindsey Dawson, told The Bee that officials with Dignity Health assisted her in getting emergency privileges at Methodist so she could perform Minton’s surgery there. READ MORE