The story has been taken down. I went to the link, and clicked Home, after the announcement. Here is some of that message, a note from the author, and a disclaimer from the hospital.

"Mika had alledged in a blog post tha sie has since removed, that the University of Nebraska Medical Center had refused to perform a kidney transplant after learning of Mika's transgender status.

Mika Covington has since messsaged me via facebook that sie is concerned about possiable legal actions and therefore has taken hir blog post down.

This leaves me without an unattributable article and in a very bad position. I will leave this post up with the statement I received from the Nebraska Medical center and will update it as necessary.

Update 10:46 PM CT

Taylor Wilson, Senior Media Relations Coordinator at the Nebraska Medical Center has emailed me with this statement:

"We have performed thousands of transplants over the last 40 years. Patients are never rejected based on gender, race or religion. EVER. Organ transplant is highly regulated by the government and politics is never part of the discussion. Without consent from the patient, we can't comment specifically about this case. However, we can say that each prospective transplant recipient has to attend appointments on a regular basis and complete a variety of tests before being eligible for transplant. We want to make sure each patient takes the utmost care of the gift of life they're being given, both immediately after the transplant and for years to come."

A happy ending. I don't think discrimination is harmless. The Nebraska Medical center lost the business and probably lost a big chunk of business long-term due to damaged reputation if this is true. I wouldn't have anything to do with them.

Do you think the government should have fined the hospital for not treating her?

According to this article the problem started when she (wait...was it "he"?) said she/sie (what's sie mean anyway?) was an Obama supporter. I'd like to hear the other side's version. This seems biased and from an unreliable source.