A detransitioned woman is taking the first legal action in Spain against the healthcare provider that prescribed her hormones as a teenager and later removed her uterus as a young adult.
Susana Domínguez, 24, filed a claim against Galician Health Service, the publicly funded healthcare system in Spain, that prescribed her cross-sex hormones at 16 and performed a hysterectomy on her at 19, which she now deeply regrets.
Domínguez told El Mundo, Spain’s second-largest printed daily newspaper, that her current condition is “awful,” and she feels that her life has been “ruined.”
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The claim, a step before a potential lawsuit, is asking for 314,000 euros (approximately $333,000 USD). It alleges that Domínguez was misdiagnosed, did not receive adequate psychological support, and that hormone treatment aggravated her mental health condition.
Read more: Daily Wire
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