Chicago castration arrest

[Origen22 (imported)]

Has this been posted before? Another example of dangerous illegal castration

http://abc7ny.com/news/ohare-pilot-gets ... -/2208423/

CHICAGO -- A bizarre criminal case involving a commercial airline captain at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, an Army surgical kit and a home castration has ended much more normally: with a plea deal.

James Pennington pleaded guilty to practicing medicine without a license after using an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman.

Pennington, 57, was arrested last May by police in Denver, Colorado, and charged with assault, which was dropped as part of Pennington's guilty plea.

The surreptitious surgeon actually worked for ExpressJet Airlines the past 12 years, according to company records obtained by the I-Team at sister station WLS. Co-workers said he was based at O'Hare, where he flew for United Express.

Pennington, not a licensed doctor, performed the 90-minute illicit surgery in the transgender woman's apartment. Investigators said he used a scalpel from a military field surgical kit to disconnect and remove the person's two testicles and he then stitched up the incision.

Authorities said the patient's wife called an ambulance about three hours later when "a large amount of blood" began gushing from the sutured incision. Authorities said she was taken to Medical Center of Aurora outside Denver but that the testicles could not be reattached because of the several hours between the procedure and the 911 call.

After his arrest, Pennington was placed on administrative leave from the airline. As part of his plea agreement he faces a sentence of two years court supervision and no jail time, according to Ken Lane, communications director for the Denver District Attorney. Sentencing is Aug. 21.

On Tuesday, Pennington told the I-Team that he is "planning to go back to work" at ExpressJets. Bobbie Batista, communications director ExpressJets, told the I-Team "Mr. Pennington is currently still on leave status."

In a brief phone conversation with the I-Team after his plea deal and sentencing, Pennington said that "the news media has not treated me fairly." When asked for details, Pennington referred WLS to his attorney.

"Mr. Pennington remains disappointed that charges were ever filed," attorney Douglas Richards said. "That decision was against Jane Doe's wishes," according to Richards, referring to the unidentified person who underwent the clandestine operation.

In a statement Richards said that Pennington "is pleased that this has brought attention to the daily struggles of the transgender community. It's not every day that someone, like my client, risks their own liberty to help a stranger who is a victim of her own body."

An attorney representing the transgender woman who underwent the procedure says she "is thankful the case is almost over and wishes Mr. Pennington the best."

According to attorney David M. Beller, "she is fully recovered and is happy in her new body. She hopes that her ordeal serves as a wake-up call to the public to realize that medical health of a trans person is a human need and not merely a choice of convenience."

As the I-Team reported on May 23, a letter written by transgender woman Jane Doe offered some insight as to how the castration surgery came to be.

"I tried for many years to go through legitimate routes to get these surgeries which would make my physical genitalia match my gender. Yet every time something went wrong" Doe wrote. "Whether it be the loss of insurance, or changes in the law, I have been stopped at every single turn from completing my transition. Eventually it became too much. My body is my body, and my gender is my gender, and I am the only one who gets to decide how I want my transition to go."

Doe claimed in the letter that she wasn't a victim of Pennington, chose to have the "unlicensed operation" and that he's not a monster. "I contacted Mr. Pennington because he offered to do me a favor and help me get an operation which I so badly needed for my mental and physical health" Doe wrote. "He offered me a kindness which the environment I live in denied me."

[Losethem (imported)]

Yes it has. Back when it happened.

[Garachi1 (imported)]

This is something I can really relate to. Trying all ways and means to go on with transition, but the medical authorities all acting retarded and stupid in some way or another.

[TgEunuch (imported)]

This is something I can really relate to. Trying all ways and means to go on with transition, but the medical authorities all acting retarded and stupid in some way or another.

It should never come to this if the medical industry wasn't so anal when it comes to men who wish to become eunuchs! There would be no need for cutters or DIY jobs if guys could walk in and have a simple no hassle orchiectomy without all the bullpoop. When guys who wish to become eunuchs walk into a clinic, doctor's office or a hospital requesting to be castrated, they realize that this is a one way trip with no return to being a intact male. What's the big deal!

[Losethem (imported)]

It should never come to this if the medical industry wasn't so anal when it comes to men who wish to become eunuchs! There would be no need for cutters or DIY jobs if guys could walk in and have a simple no hassle orchiectomy without all the bullpoop. When guys who wish to become eunuchs walk into a clinic, doctor's office or a hospital requesting to be castrated, they realize that this is a one way trip with no return to being a intact male. What's the big deal!

I'm believing it's starting to get to the point the folks who can fix this are sitting around having a nice mental circle jerk with it all to stroke their own egos. At least with one notable exception.

While they attend conferences, have intellectual conversations with their peers about it all, they always end up putting it off until the next round (IE, let's wait until next year). Meanwhile, people are going out and doing exactly as you describe and harming themselves in the process. I guess that's a better reality to the folks holding the keys to letting us in the legitimate path kingdom, than actually doing anything about it. I have to admit I'm quite disappointed.

At the rate it's moving, there won't be full acceptance in the medical community for this until about the time Dr. Beverly Crusher will be practicing (around 340 years from now). Maybe Counselor Troi will sign off on the therapist letters?

[Paolo]

"Commander Riker, tell me about your sexual organs?"

It always brightens my day to see a Trek reference.

Kidding aside, the writers of Trek (and there have been some really bad ones) have never shied away from the hard topics.

While I'm not much for memorizing titles of episodes, other than the big ones like "Best of Both Worlds", I suppose that makes me not so good of a Trekker? I can't say, "Oh, that was s04e03 where So-And-So went into a Jeffries Tube with Ensign Smith, and then... ... ..."

Getting back to the touchy topics, In s04e23, "The Host," (I looked it up) Beverly falls in loves with Odan, the first Trill we meet. Enter bad writing glitch about the transporter, but oh well. For those not in the know, Odan was a Trill, a joined species of humanoid with a large "slug" or "worm" living inside them. The Symbiont was highly intelligent, and the two combined to form one personality. In this case Odan was male. He was killed. The symbiont survived, but was later placed in a female host. "Odan-Lady", however, was still in love with Beverly, but Beverly couldn't deal with a homosexual relationship. It was well-handled, I thought.

One of the more thought-provoking and on-topic episodes is located here:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/J%27naii

The J'naii were a spacefaring androgynous race native to the planet J'naii.

Occasionally individuals were born who had urges for maleness or femaleness instead of androgyny. Being a remnant from the earlier evolutionary stages, this was considered a form of sickness. This resulted in a subculture forming inside J'naii society where the gender-oriented individuals lived in a lie. They pretended to have androgynous gender identity, and sought each other out in secret, to express themselves and love for each other through the gender roles. This minority lived always in fear of being discovered.

Some J'naii were aware from a young age of an alignment towards a particular gender. These J'naii could face cruel taunts from their schoolmates when suspected of being a deviant. In general, being suspected and discovered led to being ridiculed and cast out of society. Deviants were called throwbacks, misfits, and criminals.

The government had a total lack of acceptance for such gender identities. Any individual suspected of having them could be taken into custody. A trial was held for the individual to confirm or dispute the charges. When a person was found to be a deviant, psychotectic therapy was used to change the gender identity to androgyny. A person would only be re-accepted into society if they accepted this procedure.

To this race, there was no gender. If you had a gender, well, see the above text. For the time, this was a pretty bold episode to do - Riker, a man, has feelings for this androgynous Being, who leans toward female, in violation of all 'her' culture stands for. This episode just screams "transgender rights". And of course, Worf - the ultra-masculine Klingon guy - was totally freaked out by this, providing a balance to the episode.

Back to reality, though.

The whole transgender topic has become more widely known and, to some extent, accepted. However, there is still the binary "norm" to deal with - While MtF and FtM are the main ones, it still reflects the gender binary of "male or female". Never mind that many cultures throughout history, including Native Americans, have long recognized other genders.

We can only hope all the research to the DSM lately will make things easier for those today that don't fit into the already-covered areas of gender, and that the identity of "-to Eunuch" will be properly addressed.