by Worriedmom
Second in a series. Part 1 is here. Part 3 is here.
4thWaveNow contributor Worriedmom has practiced civil litigation for many years in federal and state courts.
San Francisco phalloplasty surgeon, Curtis Crane, M.D., continues his odyssey through the San Francisco court system. Since our initial post about Dr. Crane and his legal troubles, one of the lawsuits that was then pending against him has apparently been settled, and two more have been filed. This brings to a total of eight the number of times that Dr. Crane has now been sued for medical malpractice in San Francisco Superior Court.
This post updates the reader on the various lawsuits now pending against Dr. Crane, and also documents the peculiar silence with which these allegations have been greeted in the transgender community. It is indeed strange that, for all their fears about violence and mistreatment, transgender activists do not appear concerned in the slightest about a member of the medical profession who is alleged to have botched multiple surgeries, behaved insensitively (some would say cruelly), and caused medical havoc for many. (Of course, the allegations contained in the complaints detailed herein, until either admitted, or tested and proven in a court of law, remain just that – allegations).
In fairness to Dr. Crane, let’s start with some general observations about medical malpractice. Although it’s difficult to find comprehensive statistics, a recent (2017) survey conducted by Medscape found that 55% of all practicing U.S. physicians have been sued at least once. According to the survey, surgeons, such as Dr. Crane, are particularly likely to be sued (85% of them have faced a malpractice suit at some point in their careers). However, a large-scale study using data from the National Practitioner Data Bank also found that a tiny fraction of doctors (1%) accounts for almost one-third (32%) of paid medical claims.
Claim-proneness results from a number of factors, including type of specialty, age and sex; however:
“Compared to physicians with only one previous claim, a physician who has had three previous claims is three times as likely to have another one,” said lead author David Studdert, a professor of medicine and law at Stanford. “A physician who has had four is four times more likely and so on.”
Dr. Crane thus appears to be among the fraction of physicians who are extremely frequent targets for medical malpractice lawsuits.
Before getting into the details, we wondered whether perhaps lawsuits are a common occurrence in practice areas such as this one that involve relatively experimental or new procedures, and a patient base that might tend to have unreasonably high expectations. But a San Francisco Superior Court record search for Doctors Thomas Satterwhite, Michael Safir, Richard Santucci, Ashley DeLeon, and Charles Lee, all surgical partners in Dr. Crane’s practice, does not reveal any pending medical malpractice lawsuits for any of these doctors. Curious indeed.
As is common to all United States courts, records of lawsuits and the underlying documents can be found by going to the court website for the appropriate jurisdiction, in this case the San Francisco Superior Court. It is helpful to have the case number (also called an “index” or “docket” number), although a search can also be performed using the person’s name, so those are provided below.
A review of the lawsuits pending against Dr. Crane reveals the following detail:
Lewis Raynor and Haven Herrin v. Crane, CGC-17-556713. The plaintiff in this case alleges negligence in connection with Dr. Crane’s implantation of an inflated pump device in a second-stage phalloplasty, and the subsequent infection and loss of 40% of the plaintiff’s penis. Trial is set for December 17, 2018.
Doe v. Crane, CGC-17-557327. The plaintiff alleges negligence in connection with three “transformative urological surgical procedures,” including a “procedure similar to a metoidioplasty,” replacement of testicular implants, and the placement of a new 3-piece inflatable implant. A metoidioplasty is a surgical procedure that uses clitoral tissue that has been enlarged through testosterone use to form a “neophallus.” Trial is set for February 19, 2019.
Carter v. Crane, CGC-16-554254. This case involves the truly unfortunate case of Cayden Carter, a young trans man who has endured over 20 surgeries in a thus far fruitless quest to obtain, and then ameliorate the effects of, a male-appearing genital structure. Carter maintains a Tumblr blog and has written extensively about the many surgeries and lasting problems resulting from the original phalloplasty, including an ileostomy and the continued need for a colostomy bag.
According to Carter’s complaint, the first surgery performed by Dr. Crane resulted in a perforated colon, which Dr. Crane first ignored and then failed to repair. There is no trial date set for this matter.
Taylor Carson v. Crane, CGC-17-556743. This case involves a plaintiff who was operated on twice by Dr. Crane, first to create a penis (which became infected) and second to attempt to repair holes in the urethra in the new penis (which failed). The entire penis was later removed, and the plaintiff was informed by another doctor that he never should have been considered for this surgery. The case has been set down for trial on March 4, 2019.
Doe v. Crane, CGC-17-560690. This case involves a plaintiff who had already undergone several transgender surgeries who wished to replace an earlier phalloplasty with a new graft that would also include lengthened urethra. The plaintiff had already undergone a “vaginectomy” (surgery to remove all or part of the vagina) and a “scrotoplasty” (a plastic surgery designed to transform part of the female genital area into a scrotum). According to the plaintiff, he specifically advised Dr. Crane’s practice in advance of surgery that he did not require a vaginectomy or a scrotoplasty; however, during the phalloplasty both of these surgeries were indeed performed. Interestingly, possibly due to potential statute of limitations restrictions, the plaintiff brought his complaint seeking damages for “medical battery” and “promissory fraud,” rather than medical malpractice. On January 4, 2018, the court denied Dr. Crane’s motion to dismiss the complaint. Trial is set for June 24, 2019.
Oliver Davis v. Crane, CGC-17-557363. This case involves Dr. Crane’s performance of a stage 1 phalloplasty that subsequently acquired a large blood clot, which the plaintiff claims that Dr. Crane ignored.
Most recently, Dr. Crane moved to have the complaint dismissed on various grounds and on February 14 of this year he lost that motion. The case does not appear to be set for trial.
Andrew Shepherd v. Crane, CGC-17-559294. In this case, the plaintiff sought to have a phalloplasty and the construction of a “large, realistic-looking scrotum.” However, the scrotum that the plaintiff was allegedly given by Dr. Crane was too small to contain even the smallest testicular implants. Since this surgery, the plaintiff has had two more surgeries, with other doctors, to obtain a larger scrotum, but they have both been unsuccessful. The case is set for trial on April 15, 2019.
In addition to the above seven cases, an eighth case, Doe v. Crane, CGC-16-550630, has now been settled (as of June 2017). This case also involved urology/surgical services provided as part of a female-to-male transition. According to the plaintiff,
The court documents do not disclose what, if anything, the plaintiff received in settlement of the case.
One allegation common to virtually all of the above cases is that Dr. Crane “over-promised” and “under-delivered” in terms of the likely success, appearance, and functionality of the constructed genitals. Moreover, several of the plaintiffs also allege that Dr. Crane’s response, when confronted with complications or distressing symptoms following surgery, was inadequate, unconcerned, and even unfeeling.
As a final note, other than coverage by 4thWaveNow, there appears to be nothing on the internet about Dr. Curtis Crane that is not completely laudatory and admiring of his surgical skills and acumen. YouTube videos sing his praises (see “Dr. Crane is AHmazing” and “Do I Regret Lower Surgery?” for two recent examples) . The Brownstein-Crane Facebook page contains 22 5-star reviews and only 2 negative reviews (neither of which mention the eight malpractice lawsuits). Susan’s Place, a major resource page for transgender people to connect and share resources, has a thread on Dr. Crane which contains only praise and, again, no mention of the extensive legal history cited above. Transgender Pulse, another major transgender resource and support forum, also has none of the above information about Dr. Crane. TSSurgery.com, a site providing information for transgender people about surgeons and others, that also contains reviews, has a large section on Dr. Crane, but again, no mention of his legal troubles.
Poignantly if not somewhat hypocritically, the “ftm” (female to male) Reddit references our earlier post about Dr. Crane as the source for information about his practice, and goes on to allege that his practice has been dropped from the Kaiser Permanente California health plan due to “the amount of lawsuits” against him:
We were not able to confirm whether Dr. Crane is still a listed physician with Kaiser Permanente from that insurer’s site, but at least one additional source seems to confirm that he is not. (The insurance section of Dr. Crane’s practice’s website also does not indicate that it is “in-network” with Kaiser Permanente.)
The types of injuries detailed above are truly sad. One can only imagine what life will be like for these patients in the years ahead, as they try to cope with malformed, misshapen, and certainly non-functional genitals. Moreover, many of these plaintiffs will have difficulty in maintaining proper excretory function, a complication that can have serious ramifications for health. The embarrassment, pain, expense, and disappointment must be profound. We ask, why are these actual injuries, suffered by actual transgender people, so much less important to the transgender community than such nebulous insults as “mis-gendering,” the inability to access a desired dressing room, or hurtful Tweets? The fact that Dr. Crane has been sued for medical malpractice in connection with transgender surgery no fewer than eight times in the last two years is a highly pertinent and relevant thing for transgender people to know. Why doesn’t the community want people to know it?
This is just horrifying Pied pipers wrapped in Rainbow Flags leading kids to Cluebergs surgery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Clauberg)
Yeah, 4thwavenow is terrible — not the surgeon who is completely wrecking people.
This gets my goat. I had surgery with Dr. Crane and it was one complication after another that ruined my life emotionally and financially. Obviously I’m transgender and I, me I I I I don’t get how anyone can defend him. In my opinion he should not have a medical license.
Sigh. F*ck our comments section on our “terrible” site for giving a damn about these natal females. Whoever signs on for phalloplasty and the related procedures should be given a thorough grounding in the fact that these kinds of outcomes are possible, you know? These are horrible outcomes, and it’s not just a lone person reporting them. I hope this doc has to pay through the nose.
It must be hard to hear that current medical technology cannot really deliver your dream. But better to hear this and have to find ways to cope with it, than having to cope with such a surgical aftermath.
The lack of concern from the trans-focused media is unbelievable. These are their readers and the people for whom they advocate. You’d think they’d care, at least enough to back off of the unmitigated digital praise of this provider. Apparently not.
Thanks, worriedmom, for the update.
Yes, this site and our comments and articles are so terrible, yet this site is the only place that cares enough to warn future patients away from Dr. Crane.
It is astounding that no other outlet is covering this — no LBGT media outlet, no transgender media outlet, no national or even local outlet. IMHO, the silence is partially due to not wanting to “out” transgender surgeries as dangerous (surgeons must to keep that lucrative wheel generously greased), and partially because FTMs (female-to-male transgender persons) just don’t rate among the male-dominated transgender culture. Many of the males who tend to run media outlets, whether LGBT, trans, or traditional, just don’t see an important story in young women’s genitalia being butchered by an incompetent surgeon.
FTMs need to wake up and realize the only time the news media is interested in them is if the are “pregnant men.” Please, FTMs, take care of yourselves and look out for each other. No one else, other than a rare few, is willing to step up to the plate.
I wished this site was available before I had surgery with Crane. He is a psychopath and shouldn’t have a medical license. The issue is that the State of California only allows ONE year from the date of INITIAL incident to sue for medical malpractice. Crane drags out the surgeries to repair his purposeful “mistakes”beyond this timeframe. Shame on California Politicians! One of the other doctors that perform surgery with Crane told me that Crane creates mistakes because he makes MORE money fixing his intentional problems. He is brutal and refuses to admit you back into the hospital. I spent a month on a morphine drip after another doctor admitted me when Crane would not. I begged God for the month to kill me but unfortunately I am still alive and urinate in a broad spray with no sexual organs. Even after 6 years I would love to die today I cannot recover from Crane’s brutality and despise the transgender community activist for promoting and protecting this butcher
I agree and I’m transgender and I’ve had a phalloplasty with Dr. Crane, it should be illegal….That is coming from someone that has had one.
Thanks, worriedmom. I was wondering what was going on with these lawsuits.
It’s really a tragedy for these poor victims of an ideology that promises to make your body fit to an image of yourself that you think is true.
Well, of course the the transgender outlets and the trans-focused MSM do not want to report on this because it could be the end of a lucrative business. We all know that once the lawsuits start rolling in, it will be hard to defend the mutilation of young people’s bodies. Also, there is less importance given to female bodied people, so not important enough to report.
If the media only presents the “happy” side of reengineering your body, then no one will question. Let’s see the reality of it. If more people knew what was going on, there wouldn’t be so much blind support.
Parents here who love their kids and are looking out for their best interest for their health in years to come are not (as The Trans Advocate has been quoted as saying about 4thwavenow) “a hate group pimping out their (the victims of Crane) suffering” nor is 4thwavenow a “creepy conspiracy site”. Why isn’t The Trans Advocate warning people against this butcher?
What does that even mean, “pimping out the victims”? So is it the case that calling attention to any victims of misbehavior or wrong-doing is “pimping them out?” How so? This just strikes me as “something to say” rather than attempting to engage in any way with the substance.
As I understand the objections to our coverage, they seem, first, to stem from a misapprehension (perhaps willful) of the purpose of medical malpractice law. It is designed, in fact, just as in any other personal injury context, to determine whether negligence occurred and if it did, to punish it, and to compensate the victims of that negligence. As a side benefit, a successful malpractice lawsuit might deter future negligence, and reduce the number of potential future victims. Medical malpractice cases also increase knowledge in the medical community of what is appropriate care. The purpose of medical malpractice is not simply to pay future medical costs that might be uncovered, or otherwise to reimburse expenses that insurance does not. To suggest that the medical malpractice system is merely some kind of adjunct health insurance is, in a word, facetious.
Second, it seems that activists are concerned that covering practitioners such as Dr. Crane will lead to increased “gate-keeping” and perhaps lower availability of medical care. Again, though, the question naturally arises – should the practitioners in this field be immune from liability, because the over-riding need for care is so great? Any care is better than no care? Or, harmful care for some is outweighed by competent care for others? That’s just really not the way the system works. In any other context, we would have compassion for the victims, and not tie ourselves into knots attempting to justify or “explain away” the injury. I have been shocked at the level of “victim-blaming” and rationalization that seems to be occurring in the FTM community around these facts – particularly when the plaintiffs themselves are members of that community, and certainly have suffered for it.
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A quote by Dr. Carter on his intro page: ”After initially meeting some members of the trans community, I was immediately drawn to them. Gender dysphoria challenges the basic pretenses that the medical community assumes to understand about chromosomal influence on gender. It takes a courageous group of individuals to tell the world that XX does not always result in a female and XY male. It is yet another example that the world cannot compartmentalize its citizens.” — Dr. Curtis Crane
He sounds like an opportunist preying on a vulnerable community, spouting this tired old gender nonsense. But then again, aren’t most of these surgeons like that?
I cannot speak for his demeanor as of late, since I have not seen him in years, but in 2013 he was the most genuine and talented surgeon I have met. He handled me with care and performed my procedure well. Sometime things happen, so he has 8 malpractice suits, but how many has he performed well? No body or procedure is perfect and there are inherent risks. We are cutting up our bodies and rearranging them..shit will happen, shit might happen, and then again, shit might not happen. So yeah.
At one time I was doing some research on transgender murder victims for something I was writing. One thing that stood out for me was how trans media sources seemed almost more concerned about whether the murder victims were misgendered in obituaries, police reports and mainstream media than they were about the crimes.
I think that’s more to do with the fact that they were misgendered for a long time, which implies justification for their murder, and appears to deliberately disrespect them, its victim blaming almost.
I’ve not heard of this doctor, or the allegations against him, but I have known for some time that results for transmen where phalloplasty is concerned, quite frankly were pretty rubbish, which is why most transmen don’t get that surgery. If the doctor is incompetent and has botched these surgeries, that’s one thing, but if not and these are down to other reasons, then what can you do? Any time I’ve gone in for any surgery as an adult, I’ve been told of the risks and possible long term effects, and the decision to proceed has always been mine (I don’t remember being asked when I had my heart attack 5 years ago, but that was t routine surgery but an emergency procedure, I doubt anyone is going to hang around waiting for consent in those situations).
I do feel sorry for these men though, please don’t mistake that I don’t.
Due to transgender PR there are no longer any lesbians, other than themselves, so young dykes are being brainwashed into thinking they are men and must transition. Successful phalloplastry operations are few and far between and this is being kept from transitioners in order to keep the burgeoning industry in business. Isn’t there a consumer watchdog organisation that should be exposing the low success rate of these operations?
I know this sounds like sort of an obvious comment, but if there were some operation that could give the patient a larger, fully-functioning penis, it would have been available to men a LONG time ago.
I wanted to bring a book to the attention of some of the contributors and curators of the blog. I just finished reading Robert Bartholomew and Benjamin Radford’s book, The Martians Have Landed: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes (2012). It is definitely worth a read! Bartholomew is a sociologist and Radford is a science writer. Check out especially chapter 8 on “Pokémon Panics.” (p. 44) — “It’s one of the greatest cases of mass suggestion in history, In 1997, Japanese TV reported that watching a cartoon could make children sick. The reports triggered a wave of mass hysteria across the country.” Apparently, the cartoon had a lights flashing sequence that doctors said, in theory, could make a tiny fraction of children, with certain nervous system syndromes, possibly react with seizures. 12,000 children across Japan suddenly fell ill watching the show after that news report was made. The authors also cover the “Strawberry Virus” in Portugal. This time, a popular teen soap opera in Portugal had a character that made up and/or referred to a “strawberry virus,” but teen viewers of the show took it seriously, and 300 children from different school in different areas across the country suddenly fell ill from a disease that did not exist. The authors go on to feature the history of other such media-driven “plagues.” Fascinating and disturbing. What we hear from other parents again and again is the fact that they know for sure their child is “truly trans” because this is so painful, no child would make this up, and no teen certainly would wish this upon themselves or ask for this. But I doubt the Pokémon wave of 12,000 children consciously wished spontaneous seizures upon themselves, or that Portuguese teens wished nausea, vomiting, painful rashes, and trips to hospital on themselves. The recent wave of teens are very clearly experiencing these as very real and painful symptoms, and are not making it up. No doubt this all feels very real. No question these kids are being earnest and honest, as were the “strawberry virus” teens in Portugal. But the Portuguese teens were not medically castrated or had their breasts cut off, or were put on hormones for the rest of their lives, as consequence. The fact that serious and careful due diligence has been completely removed from this process and that no cognizance whatsoever is taken of even a portion of these teens responding to the power of mass suggestions (and no one is permitted to even raise this) is cruel, grossly negligent, and unconscionable.
People who have experienced transgender genital surgery recognize the deficiencies in the field and have called on WPATH to upgrade and change its standards: https://wpathopenletter.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/genital-surgery-open-letter/
I wish we had seen this before my husband’s surgery. He almost died and that’s not a hyperbole. I cannot get into specifics as I’ve been instructed not to because of future proceedings. Suffice it to say that I wish we had gone to someone else.
Kendra, I’m really sorry that this happened to you and your husband. And I’m also sorry that your community (I’m assuming your husband is FTM) let you down on this one.
Our reporting on Dr. Crane is strictly factual, and we’ve bent over backwards to be fair. Yet, we’ve been attacked, big-time, for even bringing attention to these matters. I just don’t understand it, because this would NOT be the norm with any other group.
I wish for healing for both you and your husband, and that he is able to receive competent care in the future.
Hello, I actually came here because I am doing research on medical malpractice that preys on the transgender community. I believe a large portion of the lack of information regarding these proceedings are due to the humiliation and shame incurred in such situations, as well as the smaller number of FTMs who seek out these surgeries. FTMs are a statistically smaller amount of the population. The amount of transsexual (or surgically transitioning) FTMs also dwarfs the general population of FTMs. A similar situation can be found in cosmetic surgery as a whole: there is still much stigma felt by people who seek out non trans related cosmetic surgery. Consider the case of Windell Boutee, the Georgia cosmetic surgeon who filmed herself in the operating theatre rapping while performing surgery, whose patients only stepped forward after one brave woman spoke out. I am also concerned about the lack of information concerning this topic, but I would also suggest the fact that cosmetic surgery is not as regulated as it should be, and thus cosmetic surgeons should be subject to more scrutiny. For the record, I have seen people on r ftm and Tumblr blogs discuss medical malpractice freely: I firmly believe medical malpractice concerning transgender surgery is an area that needs more oversight and exposure as a whole. Otherwise, very informative article.
I’m an FTM in my 40s who has suffered genital dysphoria from the age of 5 or 6. Plenty trans men do, but cannot admit it because we know how awful the surgeries are and how they are not a priority for anyone with any power within the trans movement. Most doctors are cis straight men who actively do not want anyone born female to have what they have.
I can’t even express how enraged I am about the current trans movement in their “pregnant man/” women have penises! “/” you can be trans and love your genitals” IDIOCY. In my opinion, anyone who has penetrative sex or Is willing to get pregnant/impregnate a female is NOT TRANS and Is appropriating my lifelong misery.
I totally agree with you about the ‘fake trans’ women and to a much lesser degree trans men. A lot of them are men’s rights advocates who couldn’t care less about the fact that bottom surgery for women is rarely successful. As you said they don’t have the operations or take the hormones. They just do the bidding of big pharma and push for women and kids to transition medically and be patients for life. Thank you for contributing to our discussion.
I wish you every happiness in life.
Hello there Perry,
A few points on your response. First – and as this article took great pains to point out – the allegations contained in the complaints are just that, claims. This article never vouched for the accuracy of the statements themselves, but recounted that they were made. This is a crucial distinction.
Second – and since you’ve come from abroad perhaps this isn’t really your area but – the number of malpractice lawsuits that have been filed against Dr. Crane is phenomenal for one doctor in such a short time period. There is a huge pyramid of medical wrong-doing, that starts out with negligence, which gets trimmed way back when the potential plaintiff realizes that something is wrong, then gets trimmed again when the plaintiff decides to do something, then gets trimmed again when the physician or the insurer decides not to offer a pre-complaint settlement, then gets trimmed again when the plaintiff finds or doesn’t find someone to represent her, then finally gets trimmed again when the physician or the insurer doesn’t offer a post-complaint settlement. You know that phrase “tip of the iceberg”? Nobody can possibly know that these eight lawsuits represent the totality of all medical error committed by Dr. Crane.
Third – I find your lack of compassion for these plaintiffs to be somewhat unsettling. You seem to be reaching to figure out any possible way to blame them for their own misfortune. You state that Dr. Crane’s patients weren’t “patient” and “didn’t understand” the complicated nature of these operations (BTW that is a hallmark of Dr. Crane’s job … to make sure his patients understand what’s involved). You call them “hysterical” when confronted with medical disasters (yikes, pretty gendered there!) You also hypothesize that perhaps they were “aggressive and unpleasant and disturbing” – what is your evidence for that? I understand that you had a “good” experience with Dr. Crane, so lucky for you. Does that good experience nullify the remotest possibility that not everyone’s experience was so “good”?
Fourth – your claim that the article criticizes the fact that Dr. Crane’s practice is financially rewarding for him is simply baseless. And given the malpractice insurance premiums he’s undoubtedly required to pay, he better be making some money at all this. He’ll need it.
1. I’m a transguy
2. I’m not familiar with this website at all, but got linked to this article from a transresource
3. I’ve not read all the comments
4. I’ve not had surgery with Crane but I have met with him twice while accompanying a friend who has had 2 successful surgeries with him.
I think it’s good that you’ve published this research. You make a reasonable effort to present it fairly as well. There are probably a couple other points worth mentioning that you leave out: 1. The usa is more litigious culture than most others. 2. An educated guess, but Crane is probably performing more surgeries of this nature than most, if not all other surgeons in the usa, so his likelihood for being sued / fail rate, is probably higher. 3. Other very ‘famous’ / popular surgeons operate in countries where it’s harder to bring medical mal-practice suits like Serbia.
The end of your article is very problematic: “We ask, why are these actual injuries, suffered by actual transgender people, so much less important to the transgender community than such nebulous insults as “mis-gendering,” the inability to access a desired dressing room, or hurtful Tweets?”
This is a completely failed analogy that smacks of judgement and makes me question your motives.
1. You’re asserting that mis-gendering / dressing room access and online bullying doesn’t cause actual harm — it can and does.
2. A lack of reporting on this topic does not automatically equate with a lack of care.
3. We opt in to surgery. We don’t opt in to be disrespected, denied access and bullied by assholes.
4. Transpeople have got to be lowest on the totem-pole for any type of funded medical research. There’s a handful of surgeons who have decided (for whatever reasons) to focus on us and we know that we are all guinea pigs as they do their best efforts to hone their craft in a field where there’s no text books or formal education. They all have slightly different techniques and they sometimes meet up to share ideas. However, it’s super niche, extremely complicated and risky and they are largely alone in their field, trying to do their best.
5. Probably 90% of guys who have great experiences just disappear into the ether and live a largely stealth life.
6. Most surgeon websites are not very informative and most 3rd party websites on this topic are broken and fragmented at best. It makes research harder to do but not impossible.
It is super, super sad that some guys lives are ruined by a terrible surgery. It’s really sad that our options are so limited, in so many ways. At the end of the day, there are resources out there to equip guys with the information they need to know what the general risks are no matter who the surgeon is. We know no one is god. Nothing is a sure thing. Most get out alive but some dont and you have to reckon those odds with yourself before doing it. A lot of us want certain surgeries but we hold back b/c the outcomes aren’t quite worth the risks for us, lawsuits or not.
There is no big trans-cover-up-conspiracy going on. Crane was great with my friend in terms of walking him through all the risks and his aftercare. Does he bat 100? No. Can anyone? No. Is it worthwhile information to know he’s been sued 8 times? Yes. Does it mean THAT much? I’m not sure. I don’t believe he’s being uncaring or half-assed. I think what he’s doing is inherently unpredictable and incredibly risky and he’s taking the lumps with the wins. What else can he do?
Mike, we deleted the last two sentences of your comment, in which you attacked another commenter who pointed out the biological sex of trans men and the fact that a significant minority of trans-identified people also have a diagnosis of ASD. This is not in dispute; even affirmative gender therapists (e.g. Diane Ehrensaft) are aware of it. See screen grabs in this tweet.
https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1037791291143118849
There is also the issue that, as had been discussed on GT and on other sites, that there is an effort afoot by the brigade, to fast track those with ASD to be ‘transed’. Be that MTT or FTT. And the parents go along with same, in the misguided name of being ‘compassionate’. While there are those who will deny that fact, it has been covered up.
[Which is no different than the multiple side effects that can occur from ANY usage of steriods/hormones for an over-extended time period, especially if it is done in an off-label vein. There are those of us who have had to use said medications for their exact purposes and to be blunt, no one, no sane person in their right mind would want to be on those for an extended time. The damage in same can last a lifetime…no different than with the HRT cocktail and can lead to such wonderful things as circulatory issues and renal problems. The latter of which, yours truly is dealing with, thanks to Prednisone being used to remedy sarcoidosis ]
If said poster had the last few lines edited, due to name calling or other verbal assaults, this is nothing new. What one will notice when a reasonable attempt at a debate about the issues involving the brigade is attempted, the reversion to schoolyard level tactics comes across on the part of the person[s] from the community. As though truth is a menace and honesty is to be ignored.
Thank you for researching these cases. I suggest that if you’re interested, you should go back and check to see how many cases he has in CA and in TX. We are involved in one of them.
Any up dates here? Will the documents from the first court case be public?
My honest review of Dr. Thomas Satterwhite, San Francisco, CA: https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/apkb4r/honest_review_of_dr_thomas_satterwhite_san/
MTF transgender.
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A friend of mine is not a US resident and the above doctor did the surgery. This doctor made a big mistake. Does anyone know of an experienced, reliable and professional attorney from Austin Texas who can help my friend?
You may want to contact Scott Newgent. He is calling for a class action lawsuit.
https://twitter.com/NewgentTGA/status/1278068392470159360?s=20
There is an important point that is missing. dr. Crane practices in California because you are only allowed to sue him one year from initial incident. This means that once he intitually screws your surgery up you have no time to contact a lawyer because he claims it is not a mistake if he can fix it which takes about a year of more surgeries (according to One of his fellow surgeons Dr. Watt he does this on purpose because he makes more money on follow up surgeries fixing his mistakes)
Stan Monstrey is who did my phalloplasty with urinary hook up over in Gent, Belgium. After researching a long time he’s the only one I would have gotten the surgery with. The outcome has been good. I have no problem with urination, but sensitivity isn’t great. I am thankful to come across this as I was thinking of having the erectile device and testicular implants with Dr. Crane. Looks like I just need to get my ass back over to Belgium…unless someone has someone else to recommend.
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