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Outrage after gay woman diagnosed at Spanish hospital with ‘homosexuality’

LGBT group complains to Murcia government after teenager gets gender ‘illness’ tag in visit to gynaecologist

A Pride march in the Valencia region of Spain. LGBTI activists in Murcia want their regional authorities to apologise over a teenager’s treatment at Reina Sofía hospital, saying some in the health service ‘view sexual orientation as an illness’. Photograph: Biel Aliño/EPA

 

A family and an LGBT collective in south-east Spain are demanding answers and an apology after a 19-year-old gay woman who visited a gynaecologist over a menstrual condition was diagnosed with “homosexuality”.

On Monday the woman went to an appointment at the Reina Sofía hospital in the city of Murcia. After being examined she was given a piece of paper that included the line: “Current illness: homosexual.”

The woman’s mother told the online paper elDiario.es that the gynaecologist had asked her daughter whether he could include her sexual orientation in his report, and that she had consented – despite her surprise – as she thought at the time it might be relevant.

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“At first, I thought it was funny, but it just isn’t,” said the patient.

The mother and daughter brought the matter to the attention of the local LGBT collective, Galactyco, which has lodged a formal complaint with Murcia’s regional government, the regional health ministry, and the regional health service.

“The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses in 1990, and yet, 31 years on, there are still some professionals in Murcia’s health service who view sexual orientation as an illness,” Galactyco said in a statement.

The collective said it was seeking an explanation and an apology, adding that the regional authorities had ignored the patient’s legal rights. It also said the case was far from an isolated incident.

“Our association has received countless reports of degrading treatment because of sexual or gender orientation,” the statement said. “We find it alarming, unacceptable and intolerable that there are professionals today who are responsible for our health, but who ignore the realities of LGBTI people.”

The regional health service could not be reached for comment. But a spokesperson told elDiario.es that it was aware of the incident and that “all necessary measures would be taken to properly establish the facts and to proceed accordingly”.

Initial investigations, added the spokesperson, suggested a mistake appeared to have been made “when the patient’s details were taken”. In any case, they said, the hospital would be offering an apology to the patient.

 

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• 赤裸裸的歧視~~~ -雪晶- ♀ (84 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 08:22:19

• 這個醫生已經得到informed consent，結果還這樣。那這個診斷就不寫了吧？ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 08:52:28

• 醫生自作聰明畫了張符,沒想到被認出來了 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 10:03:45

• 不是自作聰明，是必須要得到consent的啊。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 11:07:21

• The girl must have thought the doctor was -ibelieu- ♀ (147 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 16:40:17

• The doctor asked in layman‘s English，and documented with medical -beautifulwind- ♀ (71 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 17:05:17

• A person's sexuality is not -ibelieu- ♀ (205 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 17:27:42

• ICD-10 code： -beautifulwind- ♀ (115 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 17:32:45

• This, I'm afraid, is irrelevant. Although -ibelieu- ♀ (751 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 18:12:45

• 路過盲讚 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/07/2021 postreply 16:16:29