A woman with breast cancer was barred from her hospital for allegedly making “hurtful comments” about the “LGBTQ Community.”

Marlene Barbera was scheduled to undergo a mastectomy at the end of this month.

Barbera said that the drama began when she commented that she was against a trans pride banner that she saw hanging in the Richmond Family Medicine Clinic waiting room in Portland, Oregon. She has since asked on the internet if anyone can refer her to a lawyer.

Barbera, a woman who is gender-critical, told Reduxx that she sent her doctor a MyChart note expressing how political messages in healthcare settings were offensive to her. The outlet explained that “gender-critical” is simply a person who believes gender is a biological fact and cannot be altered by a simple snap of the finger.

Barbera wrote to her doctor that she finds it “daunting”, to be treated by a physician when a banner is in her face that says “that I, as an adult female, am merely a category that is available to any male who is not gender-conforming and is not a fact.”

Barbera asked, “May I have a phone appointment to discuss the best way to access your medical services without having to walk under a banner which seeks to negate everything I am?”

Later, she learned that her comments about the flag had been seen by other staff. Barbera said that the doctor with whom she shared this message had been her primary care physician for 12 year and served her entire family.

Barbera says that things got tense during a June call with a receptionist.

The person who insisted that I make an appointment. I had breast cancer, and therefore a lot of medical appointments. I didn’t want to make that appointment. “They got angry with me for my ‘noncompliance’, and hung up,” Barbera explained. “I called back, thinking it could have been an error. I was told that I was not allowed to speak with the person who had hung-up on me. I declined because things had not gone well the first.

She said that she called Reduxx to ask for more information.

The receptionist asked Barbera, “What did you say?” slowly and very strongly. Barbera hung up, thinking that the conversation was not going anywhere.

Stein Berger, the Practice Manager at Oregon Health Science University sent Barbera a message a few weeks later. Berger told Barbera that she was “effectively banned” from the clinic for “continuing disrespectful and hurtful comments about our LGBTQ staff and community.”

He also noted that she had been banned from “Immediate Care Clinics”.

Barbera continued to search for an attorney and said her “anxiety is through the roof.”

I’ve had severe chronic agitated depressive disorder since my teen years. Now, I don’t have a primary care physician and nowhere else to turn. I was made to feel worthless and useless.

Barbera claimed that gender ideology was “a religion” to which she did not subscribe.

Barbera stated that “the trans movement” says a man can define himself as a female by his feelings, but a women cannot define herself by her material reality. “It’s really a men-rights movement.” “Dangerous to women and children.”