The facility claims religious exemption to deny the surgery to trans manBALTIMORE—A transgender man allegedly was denied gender affirmation surgery at the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and St.
Joseph Medical Center in Towson, according to The Baltimore Sun.The media outlet reported that Jesse Hammons, 33, filed the lawsuit late last week in the “U.S.
District Court for the District of Maryland.”Hammons alleges, in Hammons v. University of Md Et Al the health care facilities “violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights and the Affordable Care Act (ACA)” when they negated to provide the hysterectomy needed for his treatment—gender dysphoria.