Strong content warning for the text of article: Death of a young trans person in the UK health care system
Joelle was 27. She was a gifted musician, a self-taught coder, funny, generous and deeply loved.
She had an aggressive lymphoma that almost always curable when treated as a medical emergency. A bed was available on the cancer ward when she arrived at Wolverhampton NHS Trust. After staff saw that she was a trans woman, she was removed from the ward and placed in a side ward on the other side of the hospital.
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