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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
News 19 Exclusive: Mother claims inadequate treatment from Madison Hospital
TANNER, Ala. (WHNT) — Savannah Gagneur is speaking out, saying Madison Hospital did not properly treat her 19-month-old daughter in a moment of serious illness. 'She just woke up, like, really fussy,' Gagneur said. 'I took her temperature and it was 104.8 [degrees].' 'This is out of control': SNAP benefits theft victims plead for help Gagneur's stomach dropped seeing her 19-month-old daughter, Kennedie, suffering from such a high fever. But, storms Tuesday night were still active in the area, so they had to wait it out. 'I just gave her Tylenol and let her sleep it off,' Gagneur said. 'In the morning, it didn't really get any better. It was like 103 [degrees].' That's when Gagneur took Kennedie to the Madison Hospital Emergency Room, an experience she describes as unacceptable. 'I got there around 8:36 a.m. and left around 9:16 a.m., so I wasn't even there for an hour. They discharged me, saying she had a viral infection. They didn't test her or anything,' Gagneur said. Madison para athlete gearing up to train with Team USA She described leaving Madison Hospital with only Tylenol and frustration. When Kennedie's symptoms worsened that same day, Gagneur said she called their pediatrician, who consulted them to go to Decatur Morgan's pediatric emergency room. Kennedie was diagnosed with pneumonia there, but that's not where the story ends. 'He [doctor at Decatur Morgan Pediatric ER] was like, 'Well, we'll give her some Tylenol, and, after an hour, if her body doesn't react to it, then we'll admit her to [Huntsville Hospital] Women's and Children's.' And they did,' Gagneur said. 'We went to Women's and Children's via ambulance.' At Huntsville Hospital Women and Children's Emergency Room, 19-month-old Kennedie received even more diagnoses. 'She has meta pneumonia, which is a bacterial pneumonia, a viral pneumonia and rhinovirus,' Gagneur said. All the diagnoses only escalated Gagneur's frustration with Madison Hospital. 📲 to stay updated on the go. 📧 to have news sent to your inbox. She made a post on Facebook detailing her experience at MH, which garnered over 200 comments, most of which chimed in with their own feelings of inadequate treatment at that hospital. 'It's very upsetting considering those are people that're supposed to be taking care of our kids, you know?' Gagneur said. 'Pneumonia is very serious in kids under the age of two. That's like a life-threatening thing.' The Huntsville Hospital Health System responded to News 19's inquiry about the situation, saying: 'Madison Hospital takes pride in providing excellent care for our community members of all ages. Our hospital leadership has been in contact with the patient's mother to understand her concerns and learn more. The hospital is already reviewing the situation to thoroughly understand the care provided and identify any areas for learning or improvement.' Spokesperson, Madison Hospital Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Justice is served — 'Drag Race's Jasmine Kennedie speaks out after man who harassed her is fired
After being harassed and followed by a strange man on the subway, trans Drag Race star Jasmine Kennedie stood up for herself, and now justice has been served. After a harrowing experience where a MAGA supporter invaded her personal space, followed her onto the subway, and shouted anti-LGBTQ+ slurs at her, Kennedie took her story to social media, and with the help of internet sleuths, she was able to identify the man who allegedly harassed her. When the man harassed her, Kennedie told PRIDE she was 'sort of shocked, but at the same time, I am a person that when it comes to conflict, I don't necessarily back down.' On Monday, Kennedie posted an Instagram reel detailing her awful experience and showing video footage of the man who made her feel unsafe, and shortly after, messages started flooding her DMs with information from people who recognized him. Followers on Instagram, as well as a few people who worked with the man, sent Kennedie messages identifying him and letting her know that he worked at a New York City gym called Gym U. After contacting the gym and filing a formal complaint, Kennedie's followers began sending messages to Gym U about the incident and within 24 hours of her initial post the man was fired from his job. 'A job loss is horrible for anybody, but if you're working for an LGBTQ+ friendly gym, I don't think that's the type of rhetoric that should be spewed around by one of the employees,' Kennedie told PRIDE. Kennedie revealed that she felt 'empowered' and 'vindicated' once he was terminated from his job. 'I didn't think there would be immediate action, but it gave me a little bit of a sense of joy in the world that we're living in right now that there is still hope for people to stand up for us,' she said. Gym U could not immediately be reached for comment. On her way home from a show on Sunday night, the 25-year-old performer was still in drag and decided to sit on the ground of a subway station in New York City because there were no seats left when a strange man approached her and sat down 'very, very close' to her. He immediately made her feel uncomfortable, so she quickly stood up, but then he started spewing anti-LGBTQ+ hate and following her, even when she got on a train. The man told her that 'this is Trump's America,' 'Trump is still your daddy,' and called her the F slur. 'If you're going to use the correct slur on me, it would have been tr*nny, but he didn't. I think clearly he does not understand the range of slurs in this community,' Kennedie joked, using her signature brand of sarcasm to deal with a dark situation. She was scared, but she made the split-second decision to stand up for herself because she wasn't 'going to let someone push me in a corner and make me feel smaller' after she'd worked so hard to feel confident about herself. 'I just matched his energy essentially. I think in this time, a lot of this right-wing or the MAGA side wants us to be in fear, and I didn't want to back down and let him have that satisfaction,' Kennedie said. 'He would have been relishing it and bragging to people later that night that he told off a trans woman.' While the experience was scary and forced Kennedie into a position where she felt like she had to stand up for herself, she was not alone in this fight. Other people around her at the subway station and on the train where the man followed her provided backup and support. On the video footage of the incident that she included in her Instagram, someone can be heard helping to try to get the man to leave the subway car where he had followed Kennedie. She said that afterward she found out that this good samaritan is a part of the LGBTQ+ community and had his own experience with the same man who also made him feel uncomfortable, but wasn't able to stand up for himself. 'The guy who was helping me told me, he's like, 'I was too scared to say anything, but when I saw you speaking up, I thought it was my reason to come over and make sure you were OK,' Kennedie explained. Kennedie is feeling stronger after standing up for herself and getting support from the community. Not only did she have people step up during the incident but her followers and fellow Drag Race stars have offered her emotional support in the aftermath. Daya Betty, Amanda Tori Meating, Alyssa Hunter, Aurora Matrix, and Deja Skye all posted supportive comments on her reel. 'People think that they could just walk over us and treat us like,' she said, 'and that nothing's going to come out of it or they think that we're gonna be in fear, and I felt like it was my duty to stand up and give this guy a stark reality check of like if you mess with someone, it doesn't matter if you think they're insignificant, you do have to deal with the repercussions and it's not something that should be dealt with lightly." Kennedie said that while in the past she's been 'lucky to kind of skate through' and not face much bigotry in person, that has been changing as anti-trans legislation and hate have been increasing. 'I've noticed people are feeling a little bit more emboldened to either make comments or stare or make people in the LGBTQ+ community a little bit more uncomfortable,' she said. But in spite of this harsh reality of the current political climate, Kennedie hasn't lost hope, 'I've gotten hundreds of DMs and comments on my social media posts and support from everybody not just in the community, but allies as well that see us and here to defend us and it is very touching and very sweet to know that this has touched so many people.'
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Drag Race's Jasmine Kennedie shares harrowing story of being followed home by a man for being trans
Drag Race star Jasmine Kennedie claims she had a harrowing experience last night where she was harassed and followed by a man on her way home from work. Kennedie, who came out as trans while filming season 14 of Drag Race, posted an Instagram reel with video footage of the man she alleges harassed and followed her and was caught on tape saying, 'Trump is still your daddy.' After a short clip of the man at the heart of Kennedie's allegations, the 25-year-old drag performer assured her followers that she was safe before detailing what happened to her while she was on the Oculus PATH train. 'I was verbally harassed and followed on the New Jersey Transit back home, and I will be sharing my story as well as video evidence and giving you all the rundown as to what happened to me last night,' she said in the reel. Kennedie pointed out how scary it is to be a trans woman during the current political climate. 'Y'all, it is very, very dangerous right now to be a trans woman in Trump's America. I have lived in this city since 2017 and I have never been treated the way that I was treated last night,' she explained. Kennedie was on her way after doing a show at Playhouse in the West Village when she was accosted by a strange man. 'The one time I decide to take public transit home is the one time I get verbally accosted, get called slurs, get followed, and really I had to stand up for myself,' she said. 'And I was actually very proud of myself, because in this world and this climate, they want us to be afraid. They want us to be scared. They don't want us to be able to stand up for ourselves. And this person was very shocked to see that I, as a trans woman, was willing to stand up for myself and my rights.' She was waiting for a train while on the phone with her boyfriend and still had a 'full face on of drag' when the random man decided to 'sit very, very, very close to me.' Kennedie immediately stood up and the man called her the 'F slur' and said 'this is Trump's America' and 'Trump's your daddy.' Despite being called anti-trans slurs, Kennedie said she refused to back down and take his verbal abuse. 'I said, Yes, I am a tr*nny do you have a problem with that? Yes, I am a trans woman. Do you have a problem with that? And then he had the nerve to say, you know, like you have a dick. And I said, Yes, and it's probably bigger than yours,' she said. Kennedie went on to explain that trans women aren't trying to claim that they were born male at birth, but Republicans seem incapable of understanding that 'our gender is different than our sex at birth' and that 'gender and sex are two different things.' 'Now, because the right-wing party has decided to make it their number one villain in attack and make them feel make them feel like an outsider, make them feel like they shouldn't belong,' Kennedie said. 'But we do belong. And I stood the fuck up to this person. I do not care. I was not gonna let some man make me feel insignificant because I'm confident in who I am, and let's be honest, why'd you sit so close next to the doll?' Kennedie said that the man then told her that she should be deported. 'I'm a US citizen. Are we just deporting anybody who doesn't go with the ideology of Trump? Now, is this what we're becoming? This is what the Trump's America wants is to deport people that aren't in their ideology.' She may have felt 'vulnerable," but she didn't allow the man who was harassing her to make her cower. 'I don't give a fuck. I am who I am, and I'm never going to back down on this,' she revealed. "This is a message to all trans women out there and trans brothers and trans men, do not let them stoke fear in you. Do not because at the end of the day, when you stand up, they don't expect you to stand up, but when you do, they back down, and they get scared, they get cowardice.' Kennedie explained that once she pulled out her phone and started to record him, the man backed down and started to 'grovel.' She also said that people were standing near her and on the train who defended her and made her 'feel safe.' 'It was very comforting to know that the people in this world see me for who I am, and are willing to defend me while assholes and bigots like that can run around rampant and they think that there's no repercussions,' Kennedie said. 'So, at the end of the day, you can never make me feel insignificant, because I know my power, and I did not let them take it from me.' Kennedie finishes the reel with more recordings of the man, where he claims that she started the problem, tries to grab her phone, and even follows her onto the train. After posting the reel to Instagram detailing the harassment, Kennedie experienced an outpouring of support from followers and fellow Drag Race alum like Daya Betty, Amanda Tory Meating, Alyssa Hunter, Aurora Matrix, and Deja Skye. Other people reposted her reel asking for help identifying the man in question, which Kennedie added to her Instagram Stories. She also added a video clip where she said that she's received a tip that the man supposedly works at Gym U, but the information has yet to be has reached out to Kennedie for comment but has not heard back as of publication.
