Posted on 03/18/2023 4:19:00 PM PDT by grundle
"...presenting Layla’s parents with the false dilemma that: 'would they rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?'"
A teenager is suing a health care company and the doctors who put her on controversial puberty-blocking drugs at age 12 and removed her healthy breasts in a double-mastectomy surgery when she was just 13 years old, accusing them of “intentional fraud and concealment.”
Layla Jane, an 18-year-old detransitioner represented by attorney Harmeet Dhillon, claims in a letter of intent to sue that she was rushed into the life-altering medical services while she and her family were not properly informed of risks and other vital information, such as the rate of desistence for childhood gender dysphoria.
“Layla immediately started puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12, and had a double mastectomy at age 13,” the legal letter states.
“Two of Layla’s initial providers advised that per Kaiser’s official policies, Layla could not start cross-sex hormones until she was 16 and advised that surgery was not permissible until age 18,” the letter claims. “But, soon thereafter, Layla ended up in the hands of Dr. [Susanne E.] Watson, Dr. [Lisa Kristine] Taylor, and Dr. [Winnie Mao Yiu] Tong. These doctors immediately approved Layla for cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy at ages 12-13, without performing an adequate evaluation and treatment of Layla’s extensive mental health co-morbidities.”
“I don’t think I should have been allowed to change my sex before I could legally consent to have sex,” Layla said during a Fox News appearance this past week. “I don’t think I’m better off for the experience, and I think transition just completely added fuel to the fire that was my pre-existing conditions.”
The letter alleged that doctors “pushed” the child and her parents down the “transition path, engaging in intentional, malicious, and oppressive concealment of important information and false representations.”
“This concealment included, among other things, the lack of adequate clinical research supporting this treatment, particularly for 12-year-old girls; the existence of high-quality clinical research contra-indicating treatment; the 80-90% desistence rates for childhood gender dysphoria; and the significant possibility of detransition and regret,” the letter charges. “The fraudulent misrepresentations included, among other things, falsely representing that Layla’s gender dysphoria and co-morbid mental health symptoms would not resolve without imitation sex change transition, falsely representing that Layla presented an increased risk of suicide unless she transitioned, and presenting Layla’s parents with the false dilemma that: ‘would they rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?'”
Chloe Cole, another detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced last month the first official lawsuit in the U.S. against the same health care group, which, too, facilitated her medical gender transition as a minor.
Exactly.
This doesn’t happen in a civilized nation. We are well past that now & likely not going back.
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“Two of Layla’s initial providers advised that per Kaiser’s official policies, Layla could not start cross-sex hormones until she was 16 and advised that surgery was not permissible until age 18,” the letter claims. “But, soon thereafter, Layla ended up in the hands of Dr. [Susanne E.] Watson, Dr. [Lisa Kristine] Taylor, and Dr. [Winnie Mao Yiu] Tong. These doctors immediately approved Layla for cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy at ages 12-13, without performing an adequate evaluation and treatment of Layla’s extensive mental health co-morbidities.”
They did not listen to two sets of other doctors who did inform them of risks and said surgery should wait til she was older. The kid wouldn’t accept it. They all, despite being told the risks by more than one set of doctors, went doctor shopping until they found a pair that would agree with what THEY ALL WANTED TO DO.
To claim they were unaware of the risks, is 100% complete blatant lying on the part of the kid and the parents.
“The doctors are sick freaks,”
That. Plus the medical industrial complex has discovered that there are billions of dollars to be made in the gender-bender scheme. Follow the money. Doctors flushed all ethics down the toilet in 2020.
She was a child. She was not capable of making those decisions at age 12-13.
Mental health for teens with gender dysphoria is malpractice at least. Often these confused children are put on puberty blockers after only a couple of short sessions with a therapist.
Detransitioned... That’s funny as hell since you can’t “transition” in the first place.
Her parents were probably told that she would kill herself unless they approved the surgery. If so, that threat should be used against the doctors in trial. Jordan Peterson says its’ not true.
They are the ones doing the mutilation. Can blame them just like I can blame the baby killers. No real difference.
I said a year ago that once the law firms discovered this new source of tort money, the law suits would start. We will soon see boutique firms hanging out their shingle and posting their ads touting that they specialize in this litigation. The physicians, counselors, schools, and hospitals, best start lawyering up themselves.
“They asked for it. The docs gave them what they wanted.”
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There is a reason there is age limits as to certain activities by minors. There is limits on driver’s licenses, buying alcohol, voting, entering contracts, etc. We are not supposed to give into their demands. That’s the problem with youth right now. Too many have allowed them to do as they wish. Adults are supposed to be the responsible ones who say “NO”.
“Would you rather have a son or a dead daughter? It’s up to you.”
The parents wanted it. They are the ones that give legal permission.
And the parents and kid doctor shopped to get docs that would do what they wanted, despite other prior doctors telling them different information they didn’t want to hear and listen to.
The parents made the decision. Not the kid. They are the only ones who could, legally, for a 13 year old kid.
If you go to a number of,doctors who tell you not to do something, ignore them, and keep doctor shopping until you find doctors who will do what you want, that’s 100% on you. You were told the risks and advised to do something else and you didn’t listen.
If you read the story thats what the parents and kid did. They didnt stop until they finally found doctors who would go along with what they wanted to do, despite being told different information by other doctors. They didn’t drop it and wait a few years.
This isn’t fractional blame. Everyone involved has 100% for being involved. That’s the butchered, the halfed baker and the tally whacker faker.
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