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Title: Indiana hospital responds to trans incident
Post by: Butterfly on August 11, 2010, 05:06:57 PM
Post by: Butterfly on August 11, 2010, 05:06:57 PM
Indiana hospital responds to trans incident
Windy City Times
11 August, 2010
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=27720 (http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=27720)
Administrators at Muncie, Ind.'s, Ball Memorial Hospital have responded to a transgender woman's complaint by saying that the facility plans to correct problems she experienced, according to a press release from Indiana Equality ( IE ) .
On July 18, transgender woman Erin Vaught went to Ball's emergency room, accompanied by her wife and their son, seeking treatment for what she suspected was a lung infection. According to the Muncie Star Press, staff members repeatedly degraded Vaught. At one point, Vaught's wife was allegedly asked by a nurse, "So is it a he or a she? Or a he-she?" In the end, after a two-hour wait without any medical treatment, Vaught was told "we don't know how to go about treating someone with your condition," referring to her gender history.
Windy City Times
11 August, 2010
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=27720 (http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=27720)
Administrators at Muncie, Ind.'s, Ball Memorial Hospital have responded to a transgender woman's complaint by saying that the facility plans to correct problems she experienced, according to a press release from Indiana Equality ( IE ) .
On July 18, transgender woman Erin Vaught went to Ball's emergency room, accompanied by her wife and their son, seeking treatment for what she suspected was a lung infection. According to the Muncie Star Press, staff members repeatedly degraded Vaught. At one point, Vaught's wife was allegedly asked by a nurse, "So is it a he or a she? Or a he-she?" In the end, after a two-hour wait without any medical treatment, Vaught was told "we don't know how to go about treating someone with your condition," referring to her gender history.
Title: Re: Indiana hospital responds to trans incident
Post by: spacial on August 11, 2010, 06:13:37 PM
Post by: spacial on August 11, 2010, 06:13:37 PM
This is a good example of how maximum, yet sensible publicity, sticking to facts and avoiding explosive rheotric, can produce great results.