St James’s Hospital, Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren
Paige Behan was left angry, scared and humiliated after being turned away from Dublin’s St James’s Hospital on August 15.
She presented herself with a wound infection, bleeding and symptoms of nausea and was looking for urgent medical care. She claims multiple doctors refused to see her and she says she was left hysterical and upset. She says she was advised to make her own way to the city’s Holles Street hospital despite worsening symptoms.
Dubliner Paige is a 26-year-old trans woman who recently underwent, in her own words, life-saving sexual reassignment surgery in Munich this year. This surgery was referred by the HSE, yet she believes she was denied correct and compassionate medical care by the health service on her return.
She told The Indo Daily: ‘The HSE have failed to train doctors in a lifesaving surgery. They had to send me abroad. It was partially funded for me to go abroad by the HSE to have this surgery. To come home and not be able to receive the standard basic of care for a wound infection, I think is absolutely shocking.’
Today on the Indo Daily Tessa Fleming is joined by Paige Behan to discuss Paige’s years of struggle for the “life-saving” procedure and why she is now an accidental advocate for trans healthcare in Ireland.
The Indo Daily: Trans woman allegedly denied urgent treatment at Dublin hospital
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