Canada: trans person requests euthanasia due to pain and complications after sex change surgery

Lois Cardinal, a trans Canadian who was born male applied for the country’s MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) euthanasia program due to the pain and complications suffered since undergoing gender reassignment surgery. However, the Canadian health care system, which is characterized for readily providing assisted suicide, rejected the request.

Cardinal, 35, commented to the Daily Mail

about the regret of having undergone a vaginoplasty in 2009. From the first moment of the intervention, there were numerous complications, and Cardinal continues to experience constant pressure, pain and discomfort:

I am in constant discomfort and pain. ...It's taking this psychological burden on me. If I'm not able to access proper medical care, I don't want to continue to do this.

Physicians, "captured by gender ideologies"

Cardinal denounced the refusal of doctors to provide assisted suicide and considers this a violation of human rights, asserting that healthcare specialists care "more about their pronouns" than their pain.

According to the doctor's report, Cardinal "does not meet the current MAiD criteria" and may be "reassessed" in the future for assisted death. The specialist cites the problem as "neo vagina-related pain/anxiety for gender affirmation."

Cardinal will reapply for the euthanasia injection in the coming months unless specialists finally help to relieve the pain.