Posted on 11/19/2022 11:28:57 AM PST by simpson96
An 18-year-old woman is suing a California-based healthcare company for gender-transitioning medical treatments she received there as a minor, including a double mastectomy and hormone replacement therapy.
Chloe Cole has announced her intent to sue the Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals for performing "supervised, and/or advised transgender hormone therapy and surgical intervention" when she was between the ages of 13-17 years old.
According to the letter released on Cole's behalf by the Center for American Liberty, she began questioning her gender at the age of 12. Less than six months later, she was advised by an endocrinologist to start hormone therapy.
Three years later, Cole's "treatment" included a double mastectomy to remove both of her breasts to "resolve" her gender dysphoria in an attempt to make her a male.
"Chloe and her parents were never informed of the high rate of desistance for children diagnosed with gender dysphoria," the letter states. "Also, they were never informed of the high probability that Chloe's gender dysphoria would resolve as an adult without hormone or surgical treatment."
Instead, she and her parents were led to believe that her gender identity issues would never go away and even suggested she would commit suicide if she did not follow through with the surgery.
"It's a medical malpractice case and I want to hold the adults who put me in harm's way accountable," Cole told Fox News. "What happened to me is horrible, (but) it didn't only happen to me. That's the worst part. It's happening to children all over the U.S., all over the West, and it's spreading all over the world. I want to be able to create a precedent for people who have been in my situation to find justice."
Cole, who has since detransitioned, is seeking punitive damages "based on the evidence of malice, oppression, and fraud." She maintains that staff at the facilities failed to inform her of the effects of drugs and surgery.
Currently, Cole is happy about being a female but is living with the lasting impact of attempting to transition her physical gender.
"She had speech therapy to try to make her voice more feminine, but it did not work," the letter explains. "She expressed concerns about whether her body would ever return back to normal, whether she would be infertile, whether she had developed endometriosis, and whether she would have bone problems, etc. She is devastated that she will never be able to breastfeed a baby."
"My teenage life has been the culmination of excruciating pain, regret, and most importantly injustice," Cole said in the press release. "I have been emotionally and physically damaged and stunted by so-called medical professionals in my most important developmental period. I was butchered by an institution that we trust more than anything else in our lives."
The letter of intent to sue alleges that all of Cole's treatment amounted to "medical experimentation" because Kaiser Permanente lacked long-term studies to support their use of certain treatments in gender medicine.
According to the letter, Kaiser Permanente facilities and institutions are still giving treatment while failing to "enact policies and procedures preventing the risky, inadequately studied, and essentially experimental treatment that occurred in Chloe's case."
"This lawsuit is about finding justice for Chloe, who was victimized by medical professionals she should have been able to trust," Harmeet Dhillon, one of the attorneys representing her, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Chloe's doctors coerced her into a life-altering and highly invasive medical treatment by concealing from her less invasive treatment options and by lying to her about her condition."
She added, "This predatory and barbaric behavior from medical professionals needs to stop. This lawsuit seeks justice for Chloe and hope for other vulnerable children across the country."
"It is impossible for me to recoup what I have lost, but I will insure no child will be harmed at the hands of these liars and mutilators," Cole said. "I am suing these monsters."
CBN News has reached out to Kaiser Permanente Medical Group for a statement. At the time of publication, they had not responded.
THAT is one of many things that happens when you put government in charge of healthcare where it has no constitutional or medical business AT ALL!!
GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF HEALTHCARE!!!
Good. I hope she crushes them. Poor thing.
Having a hard time supporting the kid or the hospital. “Be careful what you ask for” even applies at age 12.
Sometimes eyes go to one word of a headline or sentence.
For me that word is institutions.
Institutions are humanly devised structures of rules and norms that shape and constrain individual behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution
But I thought it was “affirming” care.
You are correct sir. She’s lucky to be alive. I had friends that did stupid and didn’t make it. It’s her PARENTS FAULT if anything. Sue them for being stupid
Gender affirming “healthcare” will be the new Camp Lejeune.
And so it begins...
Experimental subject. Just like the. experimental Vax.
No babies for her. No babies for many who are Vaxed.
Don’t fret. Her docile replacement vultures are already here.
When strict scientific medical standards went up against woke, standards lost. We’re all basically living in a giant junior high. And no that is not hyperbole. Everyone today makes calculations based on fear rather than rational thought.
Buyers remorse with no recourse!!!!!! She and an army of lawyers might suck a little money out of them but she is maimed for life.
She might as well sue the parent or guardian who signed off on this “treatment,” since the defendants in the case are going to be naming them as third-party defendants anyway.
That poor girl. I’ve seen her interviewed a couple times on RAV. The doctors, hospitals, her EFFING PARENTS! What were they thinking? She was 12 when the process started.
She was on TV yesterday and said her biggest regret is missing out on mother-baby nursing. Fifteen years old ... a double mastectomy.
I would think the retribution should be worse than just suing them. But that is just me.
and it is starting. big med will have to shut this down, or things will get crazy.
bump
Gender affirming “healthcare” will be the new Camp Lejeune.
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With tax payers paying for it.
How long is the warranty on these things?
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