Central Indiana’s Ball Memorial Hospital Denies Care to Transgender Woman

Butterfly · August 02, 2010, 05:23:47 PM

Central Indiana's Ball Memorial Hospital Denies Care to Transgender Woman
by Sarah Toce
02 August, 2010

http://www.shewired.com/Article.cfm?ID=25483

When you walk into a hospital coughing up blood and complaining of unrelenting pain, you anticipate receiving attentive care and attention to figure out what is going on. It's a scary time. Sometimes you have a family member or two with you and, other times, you wander into the hospital alone and quite aimlessly with the hopes of finding comfort somewhere amidst the tan walls and beige rooms. When you are met instead with hate and intolerance, you may feel alone and quite confused. This is exactly what happened to a recent patient named Erin Vaught.

Vaught, a trans woman, entered Ball Memorial Hospital in East Central Indiana on July 18, 2010 and was instantly met with discrimination. Upon checking in with her wife and son at the admissions desk, Vaught was ridiculed and disrespected for being transgender. She showed her identification card to the workers, but was entered into the system as "male" instead of "female" even though her ID stated otherwise. When she pushed the issue, they flat-out denied changing the entry in the system.

LivingInGrey · August 03, 2010, 08:33:55 AM

wow...

Their facebook page is just getting blasted because of this.

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Central Indiana’s Ball Memorial Hospital Denies Care to Transgender Woman

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