Two medical students filed a suit after they were forced to undergo vaginal examinations as classroom training in performing medical procedure.
The complaint alleges that instructors at Valencia College in Orlando asked the students to "disrobe in a restroom, drape themselves in towels, and traverse the sonography classroom in full view of instructors and other students," according to Time.
Instructors cautioned them that their refusal for doing the sonogram procedure would mean lower grades and being barred by prospective employers, the students claim in the lawsuit against Barbara Ball, Maureen Bugnacki, and Linda Shaheen, CNN reported.
Sonography is done to capture live images inside of the body.
A spokesperson for Valencia College said the school maintains "highest standards with respect to ultrasound scanning," indirectly responding to the allegations by the two students.
The lawsuit further alleges that the college "had a second year student ... (nicknamed the 'TransVag Queen') explained the Medical Diagnostic Sonography Program's faculty believed that students should undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasound procedures in order to become better sonography technicians." It added that "Valencia positioned these transvaginal probes as voluntary, but its actual policy and practice was that they were not."
The suit asserts that "a student would place a condom over the probe and then apply generous amounts of lubrication to the probe. In some cases, the student would have to sexually 'stimulate' plaintiffs in order to facilitate inserting the probe into plaintiffs' vaginas."
Ball, one of the defendants, "allegedly approached one student ... during a probing session and stated (she) was 'sexy' and should be an 'escort girl' (prostitute)," raising serious doubts about the intention of obliging students to submit to vaginal probe.
