UW Hospital has been dismissed from a transgender surgery case filed in November 2023 by a woman who alleges her doctors failed to obtain proper consent before performing gender-altering surgeries after her self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. Her lawsuit against the doctors continues.
The woman, who was 23 when she filed the lawsuit, said that she began to “detransition” back to a female identity following therapy that led her to realize childhood trauma, not physical features, were the cause of her mental distress.
The woman alleged that UW Hospital discriminated against her under the Affordable Care Act, denying benefits and care that would have been provided to a “non-transgender woman.” In July, however, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Nia Trammell dismissed the hospital from the case, and an appeals court last week upheld the decision.
The appeals court also directed Trammell to dismiss the Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation fund. Any potential payment in the case could be reduced by removing the parties.
