A transgender man cannot bring a constitutional challenge to a health-care system for denying him gender affirming surgery, a federal appeals court ruled.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said that Jesse Hammons failed to show he was injured—in a way that could be addressed on appeal—by a lower court’s decision to dismiss constitutional claims the transgender man brought against the University of Maryland Medical System Corporation.
Hammons sued the medial system after its St. Joseph Medical Center declined to provide a gender-affirming hysterectomy on Catholic ethical grounds. The court dismissed Hammons’ claims that the medical system ...
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