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.
That has nothing to do with medicine. People need to wake up. This is within the standards from the American Psychiatry Association. It is being encouraged, excuse me, affirmed by quacks everywhere. It’s not science. It’s not medicine. It is pure evil and needs to be treated by spiritual means.
I hope she sues her abusers into oblivion.
I don’t know how they lose the lawsuit unless they didn’t get signatures and written transcripts from the patient herself. I can’t imagine the hospital didn’t go by the book on this from a legal standpoint. Morally that’s a different story.
If a doctor prescribed diet pills to an anorexic, the doctor would lose their license and be thrown in prison. Yet, a doctor is allowed to surgically mutilate someone with Gender Dysphoria. In this case, the doctor mutilated a child.
In California the cause of action would be battery. The statute of limitations is one year after the 18thbirthday. I do think we’ll see an influx of these that will strongly damage this butchery industry. We’re already seeing short term reversals for this madness. God willing we’ll defeat these soulless bastards and we’ll let Him worry about the affixing of millstones around their necks
Oh, that “head on a pike” stuff is a dreadful sight, and stinks pretty bad after a few days. Just roll them out on a hot Walmart parking lot and then hose them away.
If we’re going to sue the crap out of the hospitals and doctors, we also need to sue the crap out of all of the public schools pimpin’ this Dung Beetle Party tranny crap to the young skulls full of mush.
She was thirteen and every adult in her life was encouraging this.
Parents are supposed to stop their children from making irreversible decisions that will impact the rest of their lives.
Soon it will be a crime in California for parents to stand in the way of this stuff.
At the very least these "surgeons" should have their hands amputated.
I swear to God, if someone did this to my daughter, that's exactly what would happen.
Exactly what was done. How could it be argued that someone who cares for a confused child would prescribe this kind of "treatment"?
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.
Exactly. It is learned behavior / learned confusion. Not something people come up with on their own. That is why it is regional and generational and virtually didn't exist prior to the last few years.
if enough win
the insurers will quit covering doctors who do this
You should. The future of society and civilization is at stake. Not to mention you should feel sorry for this girl.
Teens are stupid ...
Making the point of why this was outrageous / unacceptable.
you make YOUR OWN DECISIONS ... she decided. End of story.
She was someone going through confusion / mental illness and was taken advantage of for profit. And that's not the end of the story - they should all be sued out of existence for this abuse.
Observe that FGM as a topic has been dropped from the world media's headlines and even back pages. In favor of slice-and-dice for profit.
I wish these attorneys and class action attorneys now hovering the best of success in making those, who made other people pay, pay. Big time.
Next five years, massive class action lawsuits.
“If you or anyone you know, was forced, persuaded or intimidated into changing your gender before the age of eighteen please call: 1-800-DIC-LESS or 1-800-TIT-LESS for a free consultation”.
All bets are off if this goes in front of a jury.
Female? Are you a biologist?
None of this really matters.
The defendants in this lawsuit will file a third-party claim against the parents to spread the liability to other parties who should absolutely be sharing it.
"You're telling me that this surgery was unnecessary and caused permanent harm to you? Well, great ... that means the person or persons who signed the consent form on your behalf are the ones who really should be sued here."
This is what will stop the mutilation of children.
If I’m on that jury, I award the highest damages ever awarded against a hospital/medical company. Mutilating a 13 year old is unforgivable.
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