Denver gender activist files discrimination lawsuit against Aurora hospital and its security

[Boiler 46,107]

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/27/jaxzion-justice-deak-denver-gender-activist-lawsuit-medical-center-of-aurora/

 

A former member of Denver’s LGBTQ Commission says his civil rights were violated last year when a security guard at an Aurora hospital tackled him in anger as the activist was leaving the premises.

JaxZion Justice Deak,  a Denver gender activist, also is accusing The Medical Center of Aurora and its contracted security firm HSS of failing to train employees and adopt policies on how to interact with transgender patients and their visitors, according to a lawsuit filed Dec. 22 in Denver District Court.

Deak, who recorded the incident on his cellphone, named the hospital, the security firm and  the security guard, Yamada Garner, as defendants. The lawsuit was filed under Deak’s legal name, Elizabeth Erin Deak. Deak identifies as gender nonconforming and prefers male pronouns.

 

And it gets better:

 

Last December, one of Deak’s clients asked him to come for a visit in the behavioral health unit at the Aurora medical center because he was in crisis, the lawsuit said. The client had given Deak his patient identification number.

However, security would not let Deak visit the patient because Deak did not provide the patient’s legal name. Deak, however, argued that he knew the patient by a chosen name and that using the person’s legal name could cause the mental health crisis to worsen, the lawsuit said.

Deak asked the guards to call the patient and seek approval from the patient to allow Deak’s visit. He also asked how he could find out the patient’s legal name.

Eventually, Garner, who was one of the security guards, told Deak to leave the hospital, the lawsuit said. Outside, Garner raised his voice at Deak, who continued to ask how he could find out the patient’s legal name and arrange a visit, according to the video, which was provided by the law firm Lowrey Parady, which filed the lawsuit on Deak’s behalf.

[TBoneTX 46,119]

Inmates running, or trying to run, the asylum.

[Dashinka 24,792]

This was one of his clients and he did not know how to find out his legal name?

[Boiler 46,107]

I think her client.

 

It is confusing.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

  This is why we got rid of HSS. You don't tackle someone leaving the premises. Especially not at a hospital. That's not a security issue, that's an anger management issue. 

 

   Sounds like the security guard forgot where he was. Maybe he thought he was still working for loss protection at Walmart or something?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

13 hours ago, Boiler said:

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/27/jaxzion-justice-deak-denver-gender-activist-lawsuit-medical-center-of-aurora/

 

A former member of Denver’s LGBTQ Commission says his civil rights were violated last year when a security guard at an Aurora hospital tackled him in anger as the activist was leaving the premises.

JaxZion Justice Deak,  a Denver gender activist, also is accusing The Medical Center of Aurora and its contracted security firm HSS of failing to train employees and adopt policies on how to interact with transgender patients and their visitors, according to a lawsuit filed Dec. 22 in Denver District Court.

Deak, who recorded the incident on his cellphone, named the hospital, the security firm and  the security guard, Yamada Garner, as defendants. The lawsuit was filed under Deak’s legal name, Elizabeth Erin Deak. Deak identifies as gender nonconforming and prefers male pronouns.

 

And it gets better:

 

Last December, one of Deak’s clients asked him to come for a visit in the behavioral health unit at the Aurora medical center because he was in crisis, the lawsuit said. The client had given Deak his patient identification number.

However, security would not let Deak visit the patient because Deak did not provide the patient’s legal name. Deak, however, argued that he knew the patient by a chosen name and that using the person’s legal name could cause the mental health crisis to worsen, the lawsuit said.

Deak asked the guards to call the patient and seek approval from the patient to allow Deak’s visit. He also asked how he could find out the patient’s legal name.

Eventually, Garner, who was one of the security guards, told Deak to leave the hospital, the lawsuit said. Outside, Garner raised his voice at Deak, who continued to ask how he could find out the patient’s legal name and arrange a visit, according to the video, which was provided by the law firm Lowrey Parady, which filed the lawsuit on Deak’s behalf.

In crisis, chosen name, Transgender, using legal name could cause mental health crisis to worsen

 

So much snowflakdness and triggering in one short story 

[bcking 3,157]

Hospitals can (and should) have a system where the name the person is registered under is an "alias" or an "accepted" name. If they can't change the name in the electronic medical record until the patient is discharged (which is common), they could at least make a note/flag on the patient's chart saying that the patient uses a different name. The name on the medical record, and the name that security has doesn't have to be the patient's "legal" name. The only person in the hospital really who needs the legal name is billing. Even the Doctor doesn't need to know their legal name because it doesn't matter.

 

While he should have been fine to visit if the hospital had a proper system in place, when he was refused and told he needed the legal name he shouldn't have been asking the security guard how to find it out. He shouldn't be asking anyone at the hospital. He needs to either call the patient and ask them, or call someone else who may know, or tell the patient to speak with their nurse about getting their "alias" recognized so that people can visit using that name.