Surgeons Removed His Cancers and Saved His Life.
He, a "Transgender," Is Now Suing the Doctors for Having Questions About His Fake Gender.

The transgender decided to make trouble by secretly recording the medical staff during his surgery so he could hear if the surgeons Failed to Correctly Gender Him when they were saving his life.

They did correctly gender him -- they called him a man, which he was and is and always will be. And at least part of this discussion was medically necessary, because his patient file stated, falsely, that he was a woman, whereas the correct designation was "transgender female." It actually matters whether you're a man or woman for diagnosis and treatment -- for example, if you're a man, you don't need a pregnancy test and the doctors can rule out lots of things that only affect women, or they can deprioritize testing for diseases and syndromes that affect women much more frequently than they do men.

The Times will eventually acknowledge that -- after first ginning up sympathy for this malignant ingrate.

The transgender found that the surgeons and nurses discussing his actual biological sex as they were operating on him and saving his life intolerable, and is now suing because he says that pretending to be a woman makes him feel "pretty" and helps his psychological health, and surgeons and nurses discussing his actual sex made him feel un-pretty.

No, this is serious, this is actually happening.

The trans-crazy NYT gives this attention-seeking mentally-ill narcissist a very, very sympathetic hearing.

As usual, substitute "he" for "she" in this article, and read "woman" as "fake woman."

Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman, figured there was a good chance she would be dead within 18 months. Since her diagnosis of metastatic rectal cancer, her life had become a succession of treatments and surgeries as more tumors were found. On her liver, and her lungs, and her large intestine, and again on her lungs.

At her apartment in Long Island City, Queens, she read cancer research papers and estimated her chances of survival, updating the odds after each scan, each tumor, each treatment. She tried to remember exactly what her doctors had said, and the tone they had used.

It frustrated her that she was unconscious at the most crucial moments -- as the surgeon removed each cancerous mass. What if the surgeon said something important, a stray comment that no one bothered to tell her about after the anesthesia wore off? She decided to record her next surgery, on March 7, 2022, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the renowned Manhattan hospital.

"I wanted to know what's going on," she recounted. She turned on the audio recorder on her phone before the anesthesia hit. "Knowledge is power."

"I wanted to record TikTok 'misgendering crime' content during my lifesaving surgery so that I could shame and cancel the people who saved my life."

In case you live such a happy and non-mentally-ill life that you didn't know this, transgenders love staging confrontations with normal people they interact with and recording them misgendering them -- "correctly gendering," in reality -- for clout and to cancel the poor normies who struggle to deal with these lunatics.

The surgeon removed part of her lung. She did not get around to playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the audio was muffled, she could follow some of what the surgical team was saying before the procedure began. Someone was going out for coffee -- did anyone want something from Starbucks? The conversation then shifted.

" -- still has man parts."

It seemed to Ms. Capasso that they were talking about her genitalia.

Actually they were talking about all of the parts of his body, because they're all man parts.

But yes, they were also noting that despite claiming to be a woman and wasting medical resources by demanding a pre-surgery pregnancy test, he still had his dick and balls. He wants the world to make maximum effort to pretend he's a woman while he himself takes minimum effort to actually appear to be a woman.

On the recording, the health care workers express a variety of opinions about transgender identity more generally. "Not that it's not right, but -- " one person can be heard saying. "I don't get any of it," another says.

Oh no, mentally healthy people do not "get" the delusions of mentally ill people.

And in the middle of the conversation, one person suggests updating Ms. Capasso's medical file. "Yeah, it needs to say 'male,'" the person says.

Ms. Capasso said it appeared that hospital staff had in fact changed her electronic medical records, all while she was unconscious.

Yes, they corrected it, because if the operation went badly, he could sue them for working from false medical records. As I said, it is medically important to know if the patient is a male or female. Apparently this man lied in his intake forms and put a false medical history into the system.

Hey, if you're falsifying records, why not also claim you have ovarian cancer instead of lung cancer? Why stop at one falsehood?

With her records now marked "M" for "male," some hospital staff members called her "sir" during weekly appointments for blood draws. Others made a big deal about her being transgender. One person, perhaps taunting her, perhaps trying to be supportive, said things like "Yes, queen" -- also unwelcome, Ms. Capasso said.

Ms. Capasso said that when she asked hospital administrators to switch the "male" designation back to "female," she received a surprising answer: It couldn't be done, not anytime soon. She recounted the interaction in court papers, part of a lawsuit she filed in March in State Supreme Court in Manhattan accusing the hospital of discrimination. Ms. Capasso's lawyers shared the surgery recording with The New York Times.

The hospital, in its own court filings, has denied discriminating against Ms. Capasso and suggested that Ms. Capasso's "secret" recording invaded the privacy of its health care workers. The hospital denies changing Ms. Capasso's sex designation in medical records and "denies that plaintiff has been misgendered and misidentified in all of her records since 2022." In response to questions from The Times about Ms. Capasso's lawsuit, Memorial Sloan Kettering said in a statement that it "does not comment on ongoing litigation."

Ms. Capasso said that long before she made the recording, she had experienced discriminatory treatment at the hospital.

The year before, during an endoscope exam of her rectum and colon, the colorectal surgeon kept referring to Ms. Capasso as "he" when mentioning her to other medical workers, Ms. Capasso said in an interview.

It was, she said, among the worst interactions she had experienced as a trans woman in years, resurrecting old anxieties.

Two Medical Journeys
Ms. Capasso began her gender transition in 2015, in her mid-30s. She formed a tight circle of friends, and was dating. Life made more sense to her.

And then, in 2019, she was diagnosed with cancer.

Over the years that followed, Ms. Capasso was on two medical journeys: one, at Memorial Sloan Kettering, to keep death at bay; the other, with a plastic surgeon's help, to look more feminine. Starting in 2021, she underwent a half-dozen procedures to feminize her face.

Her brow ridge was sanded down. Her orbital bone was shaved to give her eyes an upward tilt. Her square chin was softened. There were cheek implants. Changes to her nose, too.

"I needed radical surgical intervention," she said. And she wanted it fast. The clock was ticking, maybe not for much longer.

"I wasn't going to die looking like the way I looked, especially getting treated the way I was getting treated," she said. "Like, not a chance."

She had decided on an open-casket funeral.

"I was going to be a pretty corpse," she said.

Even while preparing for death, she found that the feminization procedures gave her more confidence. "I wanted to blend in and be able to go out in public and just kind of be ignored," she said.

Ms. Capasso believes that her transition -- and her new life as a woman -- is what has kept her alive.

But her newfound confidence was fragile.

Yes because you're attempting to live an easily-disproven lie and so you're always "fragile" because the slightest bump or jostle will burst your bubble of self-deception.

And you've decided to make this the world's problem instead of dealing with it on your own, with the help of a psychiatrist. It's the world's duty to lie to support your self delusion, not your duty to make yourself more resilient when your delusion is challenged.

Whenever she went to Memorial Sloan Kettering, she felt dread, and not only the mortal kind. "I was constantly being reminded, every time I went, that I am different," she said. "It immediately brought me back to earlier days when I was very visibly trans, and it was rough."

And that's the world's problem now, huh, Chief?

She had been asked to take a pregnancy test, a routine preoperative step for female patients. Even though she doesn't have a uterus, she had offered to do whatever was easiest.

"I don't want to go into the operating room with any bad vibe," she later explained.

They asked him to take a pregnancy test? That is doubtful. My guess is that he demanded one.

And if they did perform a pregnancy test -- that shows why you're not supposed to lie in your medical case file and provide doctors with 100% false information.

Part of the campus of Memorial Sloan Kettering is reflected in a window seen from outside.

In the recording, the health care workers can be heard reassessing how Ms. Capasso's medical records describe her. "It's not supposed to just say 'female,'" one can be heard saying. "It's supposed to say 'transgender female.'"

Correct.

"It's still wrong per se," someone says.

They might have been annoyed or alarmed that they had been tricked into ordering a medically-unnecessary pregnancy test, which could be a basis for a lawsuit from a mentally-ill patient with a litigious streak.

And either way, I think it's going to be hard to bill the insurance company (or Medicaid, more likely) for the medically-unnecessry test, so the hospital is eating that loss.

After the surgery, it was there every time Ms. Capasso logged into her online patient portal or looked at test results: "M."

Before, she had generally been listed as "F" or "female" on any form with a field for "sex" or "gender."

Ms. Capasso wondered who had made the change and why. It was around then that she listened to the recording. Her stomach dropped when she heard the discussion about marking her down as male.

His stomach dropped.

His stomach dropped like his balls dropped at age 9.

Health care workers debate whether their patient's medical records should be listed as "male" or "female."

According to her lawsuit, the "M" in her medical records changed her interactions with hospital staff. At imaging appointments and blood draws, staff members looked at her longer than they had before, struck by the dissonance.

"My name is Jennifer, I look the way I look and I sound the way I sound, but it says 'M' on there," she recalled. "You could see there was a little reaction."

She just wanted cancer care. "I don't want them concentrating on my transgender status," she said. "I'm going there for them to keep me alive, and hopefully cure me."

See, it's other people who are always focused on transgenders' sex. Not they themselves. You're the bigots, Racists.

In legal filings, Memorial Sloan Kettering states that "its records accurately reflect Plaintiff's sex assigned-at-birth as male."

"Such information is relevant to and necessary for the provision of standard-of-care treatment," the hospital stated in court papers.

Medical journals and research articles have emphasized that doctors should be fully aware of the anatomy of their transgender patients -- as well as the sex they were assigned at birth -- in order to screen for diseases such as cancer and to properly interpret lab results.

Transgender women, for example, are less likely than men to be screened for prostate cancer, although they can remain at risk, according to research studies.
When Ms. Capasso asked Memorial Sloan Kettering to change her designation back to "female," she was told it would take two or three years, according to her lawsuit. Administrators said that they needed to wait for new record-keeping software.

So you get sued if you do, and you get sued if you don't.

His cancer has returned and he has returned to the hospital that saved his life, which he is now spitefully, viciously suing.

And they're now complying with his demands to falsify his medical records.

This past January, nearly three years after her surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering updated its electronic medical record system. Soon, Ms. Capasso began to see "F" and "female" on her records. She decided to pursue a lawsuit, she said, to help trans patients who came after her.

Her cancer has returned, and, in August, Ms. Capasso began a taxing round of radiation therapy to her lymph nodes. On a late summer afternoon, as she arrived for treatment, she tried to clear her mind of the worry she felt about both the cancer and how she would be received at the hospital as a trans woman.

She imagined she could gather up all the unpleasantness and anxiety and direct them, in a focused beam, to her tumors -- like a radiation beam.

She was back at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the hospital she was suing. She said she had chosen it in the first place because "they're the best." Her opinion of the hospital's cancer care hasn't changed.

"I'm still alive," she said. "I can't complain."

Transgenders, a tiny minority, have set upon a path of attempting to bully, coerce, and menace the vast majority into compliance, and it's working out for them about as well as you'd expect.

How is everyone? Where I am it's cold and wet but I think there'll be some sun later so I'll get out for my hike. Hopefully.

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