What better place for it to happen than in San Francisco, and it was just a matter of time until it did. That is that a local support group calling itself Medical Malpractice Queens that’s made up of trans-gender surgery patients who have been disfigured during botched sex change operations held a rally, and parade at Golden Gate Park on a recent Saturday.
The Pictures Were Horrifying
The event was held to shine a spotlight on an area of medicine, and cosmetic surgery that most people are completely unaware of. Of course most folks are aware that people undergo sex change operations, and related facial reconstruction procedures, but for the most part it just never occurs to anyone that these types of operations can go horribly wrong.
The event organizers and participants made it abundantly clear that they do suffer at the hands of negligent doctors, and surgeons, and that they aren’t going to live on the fringes of society any more, like they have in the past. They also wanted the public to be aware of the extent of the malformations they’ve endured and that it can happen to anyone.
The stories were jaw dropping, but the photographs were even more shocking as one speaker after another took the podium to share the details of their personal nightmare, but the most heart wrenching of all the Medical Malpractice Queens personal testimonials was given by a person who went by the name of Star Sapphire.
She went into surgery as a woman, had her vagina stitched shut, a brand new penis crafted from tissues taken from other areas of her body, and all was fine until an infection set in that caused her new penis to essentially rot off. Then as if that wasn’t enough for one person to have to endure, just one year later as a result of colon cancer, her anus was sewn shut, and she was fitted with a colostomy bag.
By the time she was through explaining that in fact by definition she is neither a man, nor a woman, and completely incapable of virtually any type of sex act there wasn’t a dry eye in the assembly area. Also her pictures that were posted on a screen that showed her groin area were just as shocking because there just wasn’t anything there.
One of the major issues that the Medical Malpractice Queens wanted to address and make more public, which they did quite well during the event, is the general overall lack of jury sympathy that they encounter when they take on the doctors in court. As one member put it, the attitude of most jurors is “you should have just left things like they were sister”. “Now take a look at ya”!