Tuesday was supposed to be a big day for Evan Michael Minton. The Fair Oaks resident packed his bags for the hospital, said a prayer and counted down the hours until he would undergo the hysterectomy that would take him one step further in his transition from female to male.
Instead he spent the day on the phone with doctors and lawyers after Mercy San Juan hospital in Carmichael abruptly canceled the procedure on religious grounds.
The surgery, part of Minton’s transition to a fully male body, had been scheduled for three weeks but was called off Monday as hospital officials were preparing his admissions paperwork.
Both Minton and his surgeon, Dr. Lindsey Dawson, said they were caught unawares by the hospital’s decision.
“I was a little bit blindsided by it,” said Dawson, a Sacramento obstetrician gynecologist in private practice who said the majority of her hysterectomies are done at Mercy San Juan....
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