“Sick of homosexuality”, indignation at Spanish hospital diagnosis

” Sick of homosexuality ”. This is the diagnosis that appeared on a medical report drawn up by a gynecologist from the Reina Sofía public hospital in Murcia, southern Spain. Victim was a 19-year-old patient who went to hospital because she suffers from proiomenorrhea, a menstrual cycle disorder that shortens the intervals between menstruation. The mother, identified as Santi by the newspaper El Diario, filed a formal complaint with the Murcia health system against the doctor who described her daughter’s sexuality as a disease and asked that this information be removed because it is “vexatious”. Gaactyco, the Cartagena LGBTI collective, to which the victim first turned to understand what measures he could take, also joined the complaint. The young woman came out crying from the medical consultation, where “she was asked if she could include in the report that he was homosexual.” Santi, who is a health worker, told El Diario that she learned from colleagues that the doctor was not new. to similar utterances. Letters have been sent from Galactyco to the Ministry of Health asking for immediate rectification and an apology to the patient, as well as the application of the Spanish law on the social equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender and intersex people. ” It was 1990 when the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses, yet 31 years later, in the Murcia health system, some professionals continue to consider sexual orientation as a disease “, denounce from the collective Lgbti. Galactyco assures that there are “numerous cases of humiliating treatment that are reported to our Association because of sexual or gender orientation. We consider it alarming, unacceptable and intolerable that today the professionals on whom adequate treatment of our health depends are ignorant of the reality of LGBTI people. ” The Murcia health authority promised that “all necessary measures will be taken for detailed knowledge of the facts and the consequent adoption of appropriate measures “.