Trey Lowery’s documents identify him as a man, though he claims staff at Highland Hospital in Rochester, New York repeatedly used “she/her” pronouns when referring to him.
Quenisha, his wife explained: “They never once referred to him as a male, never, not once. Even when I corrected them, they still referred to him as the same thing.” The 33-year-old was scheduled for bariatric surgery, with one nurse even allegedly asking him to take a pregnancy test before the gastric-bypass operation. “I was like, ‘Woah, woah, woah, why do you have to do a pregnancy test if I’m a male?’” Lowery said.
Lowery said that the way he was treated by hospital staff made him suicidal as they took his “pride away”. He added: “I felt like I didn’t want to be here