I don’t mean to turn !michigan@midwest.social into the Weekly World News but first a Frankfort man playing beaver with the Platte River and now…this one surprisingly flew under my radar when it started…aaah, just read it for yourself…
Pontiac — A district court judge Wednesday denied a pair of dueling $6,500 small claims petitions that centered around a transgender woman’s attempt to get her surgically removed testicles back after they were kept for months in her ex-boyfriend’s refrigerator.
[Brianna] Kingsley filed a handwritten small claims petition in August claiming [her ex William] Wojciechowski “retains possession of my surgically extracted testicles, preserved in (a) Mason jar, kept in (the) fridge next to the eggs. Demand immediate return of my human remains specimen and damages of $6,500.”
Kingsley replied: “They were my testicles. … We’re talking about my nuts. … I wanted them in my fridge — not his. … He denied me access to my own body parts. I don’t think that can be quantified. The damages were the loss of these nuts.”
After her surgery, Kinsley [sic] said she put her testicles in a Mason jar and stored them in the refrigerator “because I deal with trauma with comedy. Shakespeare did it.”
So did Tony Grassia.
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That seems odd. There’s a whole bunch of laws about human remains and specimens after what happened to Henrietta Lacks.
Could you elaborate? I’m aware of the long-exploited Lacks, but not of the legal aftermath. I’ve always heard that asking for an excised growth/body part would be denied because they’re deemed biohazards, but I’ve not heard anything about an individual’s ownership of cells/tissue/etc.