Transgender patient’s right to surgery

John Leo has some further thoughts on the lawsuit discussed in this space Jan. 20, in which m-to-f San Franciscan Charlene Hastings is suing the Catholic hospital that (unlike many other hospitals in the Bay Area) declines to perform a breast augmentation on a patient born male (“Orwell Lives”, City Journal, Feb. 4).

John Leo has some further thoughts on the lawsuit discussed in this space Jan. 20, in which m-to-f San Franciscan Charlene Hastings is suing the Catholic hospital that (unlike many other hospitals in the Bay Area) declines to perform a breast augmentation on a patient born male (“Orwell Lives”, City Journal, Feb. 4).

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