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.
Indeed.
empathy politics.
TobaccoGender Care Master Settlement Agreement"The
TobaccoGender Care Master Settlement Agreement Master Settlement Agreement (GCSA) was entered on November 23,19982023, originally between the four largest United States gender care companies [Planned Parenthood (PP), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)] – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "Majors") and the attorneys general of 46 states. The states settled their lawsuits against the gender care industry for recovery of their gender-related health-care costs.In exchange, the companies agreed to curtail or cease certain
tobaccogender care marketing practices, as well as to pay, in perpetuity, various annual payments to the states to compensate them for some of the medical costs of caring for persons with gender care-related illnesses. The money also funds a new detransition advocacy clearinghouse, the "Global Truth About Gender Initiative", that is fully-funded for enlightenment campaigns, such as "There Are Only Two Sexes", "Detransition Now", and the "XY/XX Campaign For American Prosperity", and maintains a public archive of documents resulting from the cases. In the GCSA, the original participating manufacturers (OPM) agreed to pay a minimum of US$1 trillion over the first 25 years of the agreement. "
I could care less. Teens are stupid ... you make YOUR OWN DECISIONS ... she decided. End of story.
Or feet first through a woodchipper would work well too.
This teen was stupid but also deceived by the lunatic Woke purveyors out there. Her parents could and should have put a stop to that madness but they’re more stupid and prolly Woke idiots too.
If you have never been through the grinder on this, you wouldn’t know:
1. That parents can have their parental rights revoked if they push too hard against it.
2. The system is rigged for affirmation, not a cure.
3. The therapists that specialize in GD push affirmation, not cure.
4. Some gender clinics will not be truthful with parents. I pushed - HARD - and caught them shoveling crap when my own child went through this.
5. There are several medical conditions that can cause GD. Some are curable, some are not. My kid ultimately fell into the not curable category after 3 years and thousands spent on doctors and tests. Ironically, they refused to do the ACTH test when I asked for it; if they had, we could have done something. By the time they actually did do it, the damage was done. Her adrenal receptors were already conditioned to recognize free floating adrenal androgens as testosterone and her body was developing like a boy during puberty.
Parents are just more meat for the grinder.
And FYI, the stuff they are pushing is antithetical to actual studies and science.
Seriously, if I were to write an article on it, it would be 4 parts long and many thousands of words.
I know this will sound strange to people who see past the curtain...
But there are people who really believe the “experts”
My father was one of those .. collage degree .... taught to trust the “experts”
We had many a talk. He could not understand how I could second guess a “professional”. He just could not get past the indoctrination.
I don't know if that's the case here. But the parents may have been desperate to do the right thing for their daughter... they may be victims here to.
Academia has placed some strong chains on the minds of many.
Remember this was 5 years ago ... it wasn't as clear cut, the info was hidden. ....
You have to trust your DR.
Or at least that's what my dad said before he got the covid jab
he died 2 weeks later ...
“So everyone who pays for INSURANCE will have to pay MORE for these lawsuits. Buckle up, it is going to be a rough ride.”
If we get a few of these lawsuits where the defendants have to cough up millions of dollars a pop, maybe this insanity will cease.
I was listening to one of these heartbreaking stories. The parents strenuously objected and dragged their feet for many months. The parents were put under relentless pressure and threatened with losing custody if they did not support “her choice”. Finally, the parents were convinced by psychiatrists that if they didn’t support this, she would likely commit suicide and it would be their fault.
For this reason, she doesn’t blame the parents - and I admire her for that.
Of course, I would never have listened to shrinks - and I never would have stopped fighting it. But not everyone is as bullheaded as me.
She should have received that therapy before she decided to be mutilated...by her choice.
Punish the “doctors”, but if she wants monetary compensation, direct her to her parents.
For all we know (these days), it could’ve been a scam set-up from the beginning. (semi /s)
Good one. I saved it.
keep suing until they stop this child genital mutilation.
Children CAN NOT consent to such a surgery!
Wouldn’t this hospital and the doctors have required lots of sign-offs by a minor’s parents before performing any sort of surgery? Based on the story, someone shopped doctors until they found some who said yes. I don’t mind making them liable too, but unless the hospital and doctors did this without parental consent, the parents are more to blame.
Wow! I went to college the main thing I learned was not to trust experts, myself included.
Unfortunately, my state (California) is trying to make it a crime for a parent to refuse to INSTANTLY support whatever
whimsical gender choice their child happens to make or is said to have made.
60 years ago a collage degree was a bit different ..
or at least I'm told .
I've met more then a few “expert” trusters ..
drives me nuts ...
I asked my urologist about the operation where some veins in the penis were closed off to improve erections. He said, approximatly, medicine is as much about fashion as women’s hemlines. Hemlines go up, hemlines go down. Operations/procedures come into fashion. You see articles about them and attend seminars. Everybody does them. Then we find out they don’t do what they were supposed to, and nobody does them anymore. Even I did a couple of those, and they didn’t work. It’s best to not do anything at all unless you absolutely have to.
So what would you do different if you could turn back the clock?
Not saying you were responsible in any way, but I don’t know how parents live with themselves for even being partly responsible for such a mutilation.
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