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Religious freedom no excuse for denying trans men hysterectomies

BALTIMORE — A federal court in Maryland granted summary judgment to a trans man who sued a hospital for refusing to perform a hysterectomy to treat his gender dysphoria. As a private institution denying the man treatment on religious grounds, it cannot exclude him from receiving a procedure it will perform on cisgender patients.

Read the ruling here.

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