Transgender patient 'humiliated' by nurse

[Natasha]

Transgender patient 'humiliated' by nurse

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1217713/transgender-patient-humiliated-nurse
4/19/13
Lo Wei

A transgender person awaiting surgery to become a woman has complained to the equality watchdog about a nurse who insisted on loudly calling her "Mr".

Angel, who dresses and regards herself as a woman, says the nurse's loud use of the male honorific had drawn attention to her gender identity disorder and made her feel humiliated.

The transgender-rights advocate in her 20s went last Friday to the psychiatric unit of the Prince of Wales Hospital, where her disorder was diagnosed in 2010.

[Keira]

To me, the way that this article addresses transgender people is humiliating and offensive...lol

They so just had to keep repeating the word "disorder"...just wow lol

[Padma]

"regards herself as a woman" is just provocative journalism. Feh.

[eli77]

Uh... this is from South China Morning Post, an English-language Hong Kong publication. The style of English and the way they address transgender/transsexual folks is going to be somewhat different to Western papers.

I'd say that given they address her as "she" throughout despite her having a male birth certificate, and that it is tagged as "Equal Rights," the paper is pretty strongly on the pro-LGBT side of things given the context. And a quick survey of prior articles supports this.

[Keira]

Uh... this is from South China Morning Post, an English-language Hong Kong publication. The style of English and the way they address transgender/transsexual folks is going to be somewhat different to Western papers.

I'd say that given they address her as "she" throughout despite her having a male birth certificate, and that it is tagged as "Equal Rights," the paper is pretty strongly on the pro-LGBT side of things given the context. And a quick survey of prior articles supports this.

I forgot about that...thanks for pointing that out

From what I can tell from the nurses attitude and the way the paper is phrased...China has a long way to go till being transgender is viewed as it is in North America...

At least someone is acknowledging that what happened to her was wrong...so that's a step in the right direction.