Friday 24 June 2022 04:45 PM JK Rowling in freedom of speech war with Twitter over de-trans man's story of ... trends now
JK Rowling has backed a young British man in a freedom of speech row after Twitter deleted his account of how he was 'castrated' during gender reassignment surgery that has prompted him to sue the NHS over the operation in a historic legal action.
The man has claimed that doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery which has left him infertile, incontinent, with no sensation in his crotch and feeling like a ‘sexual eunuch’.
He said on Twitter: ‘The minute I woke up from surgery, I knew I had made the biggest mistake of my life.’
‘I cannot believe they [the NHS] were allowed to do this to me. I was not even asked if I wanted to freeze my sperm, or have kids in the future.’ He does not want to be named because he is ashamed of how he looks. Instead, he tweets under the pseudonym TullipR.
Campaigners say that it is the first medical negligence case over NHS transgender care in this country. The NHS trust involved has not been named.
Many of his tweets describing his ordeal were deleted - but in a show of support JK Rowling shared them with her 13.9million followers on Twitter.
Sharing the harrowing details of the case, Ms Rowling claimed they were removed after reports from other Twitter users. The author's intervention gained thanks from TullipR, whose case has been taken on by lawyers in Liverpool.
MailOnline has attempted to contact the social media firm to confirm why the tweets were deleted in the first place.
The unnamed man is suing the NHS alleging that doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery which has left him infertile, incontinent and feeling like a ‘sexual eunuch’
JK Rowling shared his thread of tweets describing his ordeal that were deleted
Ms Rowling has come under fire for her public views on trans and gender issues
Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a group advising parents on transgender children and young adults, said: ‘It is hoped this will force a re-think by the NHS about this kind of barbaric surgery on patients who are told by medics it will help them.
‘He has a very real case for compensation against the heath service. We believe he has suffered harm.’
The case centres on whether the NHS and its gender clinics adequately counselled him before the operation five years ago. The patient, in his thirties, was brought up in the North of England and has de-transitioned from being a woman to live as a man again.
The man says he is gay and his sexuality should have been discussed before the radical, irreversible gender surgery. ‘I have been castrated. That is the correct term,’ he says on his Twitter feed, which has 19,000 followers.
Yesterday, he posted a picture of his huge bundle of medical notes which will be
