"It was infuriating. It was painful," he said. "It was another attempt by this doctor and this medical group to impose their agenda of discrimination and hate onto a gay patient."

 

He said his doctor defended her notes, claiming that the medical community was still split on whether being gay was, or was not, a chronic condition. 

 

"We would like to unequivocally state that the Torrance Memorial Physician Network does not view homosexuality as a disease or a chronic condition, and we do not endorse or approve of the use of Code 302.0 as a diagnosis for homosexuality," Torrance Health Association Senior Director Heidi Assigal wrote following a formal complaint from Moore. The Association promised the error would be corrected.

 

Moore's records were only amended slightly, but his gayness was still listed as a chronic problem. He decided to sue for the intentional infliction of emotional distress and libel.

 

The lawsuit also claims that the defendants "engaged in a pattern of deceit and medical record doctoring in an attempt to establish that they had earlier removed and retracted the defamatory content, when in fact they had not removed and retracted the defamatory content until the latter part of May 2014."

 

"I don’t want any gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual ever to hear from a doctor that their normal and healthy sexuality is anything other than that," said Moore.

 

Lawsuit Filed After Doctor Lists Homosexuality as "Chronic Condition" [NBC Los Angeles]