Posted on 06/16/2023 1:52:48 PM PDT by grundle
Layla Jane speaks at a Detransition Awareness Day rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 10, 2023. (Courtesy of Pamela Garfield-Jaeger)
Layla Jane after her operation. (Courtesy of Dhillon Law Group)
A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy.
The defendants carried out “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” when they prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy, Charles LiMandri, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, Layla Jane, said in a statement.
Jane, now 18, was influenced by people online when she was just 11 and told her parents that she was a boy, prompting them to ask for guidance from doctors.
While three doctors said Jane was too young for cross-sex hormones, she was eventually referred to several other doctors who prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones. Within six months, they removed her breasts.
The hormones and puberty blockers were given based on a single, 75-minute session with Susanne Watson, a psychologist, according to the suit. Dr. Winnie Tong, a plastic surgeon, concluded after a 30-minute session that Jane could have her breasts removed.
“Defendants did not question, elicit, or attempt to understand the psychological events that led Kayla to the mistaken belief that she was transgender, nor did they evaluate, appreciate, or treat her multi-faceted presentation of co-morbid symptoms,” the suit reads.
“Instead, Defendants assumed that Kayla, a twelve-year-old emotionally troubled girl, knew best what she needed to improve her mental health and figuratively handed her the prescription pad. There is no other area of medicine where doctors will surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and intentionally induce a diseased state of the pituitary gland misfunction based simply on the young adolescent patient’s wishes.”
Doreen Samelson, a psychologist not named as a defendant, by contrast, told Jane and her parents that she couldn’t receive puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones due to factors such as her age.
Jane, whose given name is Kayla Lovdahl, has since “detransitioned,” or resumed identifying as a girl.
She’s currently receiving psychotherapy for mental health issues such as social anxiety disorder. That kind of treatment should have been offered instead of the drastic steps the defendants took, the suit states, noting that, per a number of studies, youth who experience gender dysphoria often ultimately become comfortable with their birth sex.
Other papers have found that people who underwent chemical or surgical procedures to “transition” experience mental health issues and higher suicide rates. And some countries have restricted the usage of puberty blockers to certain settings due to a dearth of clinical research on using them on youth wanting to transition.
The lack of therapy and outlining of possible side effects from the surgery means the doctors didn’t provide Jane with informed consent, according to the suit. Instead, the defendants claimed that the dysphoria wouldn’t resolve unless she underwent the procedure.
At one point, one allegedly told her parents, “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?”
“Nobody—none of my doctors—tried anything to make me comfortable in my body, or meaningfully pushed back or asked questions; they only affirmed,” Jane told The Epoch Times.
Jane said she didn’t feel better after her surgery. She suffered nerve damage and other issues. She says she’s happier since she detransitioned.
“The law says children aren’t mature enough to make serious decisions that could have long lasting consequences like getting a tattoo, driving with friends, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, or even voting,” Jane said in a statement. “So why is it acceptable for 13-year-olds to decide to mutilate their body?”
The defendants are Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and the Permanente Medical groups, both part of the nonprofit Kaiser Permanente; Watson; and doctors who work for or are affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
Kaiser Permanente and Watson didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The suit was filed in the Superior Court of the state of California.
Jane is seeking damages for her pain and suffering, additional money for medical expenses, and costs of the suit covered.
“Kaiser continues to engage in the quackery of subjecting innocent children to irreversible sex mimicry treatment, including drugs and surgery, without informed consent,” Harmeet Dhillon, CEO of the Center for American Liberty, which is also representing Jane, said in a statement.
“The medical providers responsible for Layla’s case, along with countless others, have substituted woke ideology for medically accepted standards of care, including lying to and manipulating vulnerable patients and families.
“We are committed to holding them accountable for the harm inflicted upon Layla, and together we intend to strongly deter Kaiser’s factory-line approach that permanently mutilates an unknown number of American children, subjecting them to a lifetime of harm, regret, and medical consequences.”
A similar lawsuit was filed by Chloe Cole, whose breasts were removed when she was 15, earlier this year.
So everyone who pays for INSURANCE will have to pay MORE for these lawsuits. Buckle up, it is going to be a rough ride.
“She’s currently receiving psychotherapy for mental health issues such as social anxiety disorder. “
That just breaks my heart and makes my eyes misty. That poor girl has a lifetime of misery ahead of her. They chopped off the parts that make her a woman and she is disfigured for life.
Is she also suing her parents? If not, why not?
GOOD!
And yes, sue the parents also!
Reminds me so much of this cartoon from a few days ago...
Insurance shouldn’t cover this.
This was intentional criminal behavior masquerading as medical care.
Yep. She was used by the evil predators in our society. The powers to bring down this country will use the blood of our children to further their agenda.
While we’ll hear more of these stories, the real tragedy is that we will not hear all of these stories because many of these kids, who have been abused, will commit suicide and it will all be covered up, just like the vax injuries in the name of ideology.
Can a 13-year-old buy a gun? Can they drive? Can a 13-year-old drink alcohol? Why not? A few more of these lawsuits and this evil may stop. This really is madness. A product of a sick, debauched, diseased society.
Someone needs thier head on a pike for this abuse!
I agree, she should be Suing them also and every last person that encouraged this mutilation
Bottom line: Her parents gave their approval of this irreversible surgery on their minor daughter.
The parents were misguided, confused and intimidated, but nonetheless, they must have signed their approval for the moneymaking procedures to begin.
She probably doesn’t want to sue her parents, one, because she cares for them, and two, because they very likely have no significant assets (deep pockets) to pay her any worthwhile settlement.
In a few years, this kind of rude awakening will be happening so often, new laws will need to be written so that the de-transitioned can still sue.
Same way sexual harassment is less fixed by how many years have gone by before the victim presses charges.
Lotta female names in the professional medical and psychiatric fields that steered this decision. Quacks and degenerates or should it be whore$ for profitS?
I wrote a long post on this the other day.
Push back against the radical trans agenda.
I say this as the mother of a trans child (NCCAH).
Any doctor who removes the breasts of a healthy 13-year-old female need to be tortured and run out of town on a rail.
Nice online supervision there Mom and Dad. Friggin idiots.
Parental failure on so many fronts.
They should be killed on the spot.
My kids told me of one of their 13 year old friends who was groomed by an online predator and was given hormone drugs to become a boy. Sadly, her parents did not know about. The parents were going through a divorce at the time because the father was molesting the girl and her sister. We live in an area were stories like that are common, fathers molesting their children. The trauma either causes the girls to want to become boys or take drugs.
They must have skipped the lecture where they covered The Hippocratic Oath.
If the hospital loses this lawsuit it will signal the beginning of the end for this crap. Hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies have no stomach for losing lawsuits.
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