HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 29, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A Connecticut hospital network will force women to share rooms with biological men who claim to be women. According to Hartford HealthCare, the new policy stems from a spirit of “cultural humility.”
Hartford HealthCare is a network of hospitals serving 185 towns, with 33,000 employees, including 4,000 medical staff, and an operating revenue of $4.3 billion. The network released a statement Monday describing a “major step” on its “journey to cultural humility” involving “establishing a policy for assigning hospital beds to transgender patients.”
The policy, which was two years in the making and has been in place since last fall, states that the healthcare network is committed “to identifying gender-affirming room assignments.”
According to the policy, “transgender patients will be assigned to rooms based on their self-identified gender, regardless of whether this is consistent with their physical appearance, surgical history, genitalia, legal sex, sex assigned at birth or name and sex as it appears in hospital records.”
“It’s about the level of acceptance humans have toward others’ differences,” said Gerard Lupacchino, senior vice president of “human experience” at Hartford HealthCare, adding that patient needs should not be exclusively based “assumptions about preferences based
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