A California appellate court has revived a transgender man’s lawsuit against Dignity Health for refusing to allow his doctor to perform a hysterectomy on him at one of its Sacramento-area hospitals.

Evan Minton sued Dignity Health in 2017 after Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Sacramento County, refused to allow his doctor to perform the procedure as part of his treatment for gender dysphoria. After Minton’s denial of treatment received media coverage, Dignity arranged for his doctor to get emergency admitting privileges at Methodist Hospital, a non-Catholic Dignity Health hospital about 30 minutes from Mercy, and the procedure was performed three days after initially scheduled.

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