{"id":103277,"date":"2017-05-20T05:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T09:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103277"},"modified":"2017-05-20T05:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T09:32:06","slug":"man-charged-after-removing-transgender-womans-testicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/20\/man-charged-after-removing-transgender-womans-testicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after removing transgender woman&#8217;s testicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_103278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103278\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-Metzenbaum_scissors_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103278\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-Metzenbaum_scissors_04.jpg\" alt=\"A man is facing felony assault charges after police say he used an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman in her Denver apartment. (Photo by Saltanat ebli (Own work) [CC0],)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-Metzenbaum_scissors_04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-Metzenbaum_scissors_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-Metzenbaum_scissors_04-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is facing felony assault charges after police say he used an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman in her Denver apartment. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AMetzenbaum_scissors_04.jpg\">Saltanat ebli (Own work) [CC0],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>DENVER \u2014 A man is facing felony assault charges after police say he used an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman in her Denver apartment.<\/p>\n<p>KUSA-TV reports https:\/\/goo.gl\/KLrqF2 57-year-old James Pennington, who is not a licensed medical professional in Colorado, is being held without bail after he told investigators Wednesday that he performed the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the woman&#8217;s wife was with her during the 90-minute surgery, and Pennington told the couple to call 911 if complications developed. The wife told police that after changing the dressing, a large amount of blood poured out of the sutured wound.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors were unable to reattach the testicles.<\/p>\n<p>Booking documents do not indicate if Pennington has hired an attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 A man is facing felony assault charges after police say he used an Army surgical kit to remove &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[6484],"class_list":["post-103277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-transgender-woman","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}