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Girl Sues Hospital for Removing Her Breasts at Age 13
Epoch Times ^ | June 15, 2023 | Zachary Stieber

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; bigprofit; childabuse; children; detransiting; detransition; detransitioners; medicalcomplex; medicalmalfeasance; medicalmalpractice; muitlation; trans; transagenda
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To: rovenstinez

Cut off the doctor’s pecker and she will be even, have to do something rash to stop this butchery.


61 posted on 06/16/2023 4:44:22 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: TheWriterTX

I sorry you had to go through this, please write such a article it is needed


62 posted on 06/16/2023 4:57:46 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: grundle

The doctors involved should go to prison. Period.

It’s profit driven. Ideologically it’s spitting in God’s face.

I’m sick of this nonsense.


63 posted on 06/16/2023 5:04:56 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Excellent point!

For child abuse.

And the state should be sued as well for letting that criminal abuse take place.


64 posted on 06/16/2023 5:26:58 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes, that is a perfect illustration of the insanity we’re living.


65 posted on 06/16/2023 5:28:54 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

This war is going to have casualties ... and many are going to be uninformed and “innocent” .... but people will finally get angry enough and stop enabling them and put a STOP to this QUEER Nonsense!!!


66 posted on 06/16/2023 5:43:32 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (When Ashli Babbitt’s video-taped murderer Michael Byrd is indicted, I’ll start paying attention.)
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To: lee martell

I know. That’s why parents get put under so much pressure to comply. Not complying is a crime and the state can take their children. It’s disgusting.


67 posted on 06/16/2023 6:33:11 PM PDT by enumerated ( )
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To: TheWriterTX

Very sorry you went through that. I know many of these clinics use emotional blackmail to get parents to agree to their child’s transition, implying the child will commit suicide if the parents don’t agree. Some parents are Munchasen by proxy types who bask in the attention given to trans kids and their family members, but many others are simply fed a pack of lies.


68 posted on 06/16/2023 6:45:11 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: Responsibility2nd

My child was born with non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia, an incurable defect of the endocrine system.
Unlike congenital adrenal hyperplasia, NCCAH manifests during puberty. Only a tiny subset of kids with this condition experience GD.

She hit puberty early, but that didn’t surprise me as my sister and mother both did, too (all at age 9 years old). I didn’t realize it was a warning sign of NCCAH. I figured it was just genetics.

Although she developed breasts, the rest of her body starting developing like a boy. Masculine body hair, jawline flattened out, voice got deeper, masculine musculature, etc. When she shared how she was feeling inside, it blew my world apart.

This was my baby...my loving, kind, ridiculously smart, science oriented, and super serious baby. She was the antithesis of a drama queen. She was talented, accomplished, and lived a normal childhood. What the hell was happening?

Family doctor recommended a special clinic.

We took her to a gender clinic in Dallas. They lied to me about her labs. I had already began doing research on GD and causes, looking for corresponding symptoms that might point to an underlying medical condition. I asked for an ACTH stimulation test. They refused.

I reached out to Dr. Kenneth Zucker, the leading expert in Canada (who, ironically, had been forced out of his own clinic by radical trans activists, only to later prevail in court) and he helped me understand what could be happening and why.

More labs, more tests, therapists, psychologists (most of whom didn’t take insurance) and careful delaying tactics to avoid hormones/surgery - which everyone was pushing!

Over to a different Endocrinologist, with a specific request for ACTH stimulation test. Instead they ran a basic lab and told me the ACTH test wasn’t justified.

Bullshit, it wasn’t.

It wasn’t until my youngest was diagnosed with NCCAH (premature bone maturation) that these assholes actually took me seriously and stopped treating me like I was the hysterical one. ACTH test instantly confirmed NCCAH.

Oh, yeah, at that point it was too late. We needed to start her on a treatment plan at the onset of puberty...when I originally bloody asked for it!

Can you see a pattern here, how the whole damn system is rigged?

Another ugly little side effect of a endocrine disorder is the depression. For example, women with post-partum depression suffer from too few hormones and depleted adrenals. In my child’s case, their system overproduced adrenals. Too much or too little is not good.

What would I have done differently?

1. I would have flown her to Canada, to Dr. Zucker, and have him run the labs and handle her care.

2. I would have fought the doctors more and followed my gut sooner.

3. I would have taken her to a different therapist.

For my child, the cure window had passed.

For a lot of these other kids, they need mental help or deprogramming. They are not trans, and this push for affirmation, hormones, and surgery is insanity.

My child ultimately started transitioning at 19, as an adult, and paid for it herself.


69 posted on 06/16/2023 10:37:04 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: 1of10

Very sorry to hear about your Father.

These parents went to multiple Dr until they found one that did what THEY wanted. No mercy for these ‘parents’.


70 posted on 06/16/2023 11:00:42 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: griffin
” did what THEY wanted”

then yes .... no mercy ... to do something like that to your own child ... I can't get my mind around that. what evil .. what ... hate ... what a black heart ..it staggers me.

as for my Dad ... ya it was tough , but he was ready in the end.
got the shot ..3 days latter in the hospital ..down hill from there.

The medical industrial complex is not what it's portrayed to be. The WHO (not the band) is a very evil entity and we are giving up our sovereignty to them. ... dark days a coming

71 posted on 06/16/2023 11:16:51 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: 1of10

Its definitely not the world I grew up in. I want little part of it. Up in the mountains of Montana and Idaho time can pass fairly quietly. I try to stay well away from liberal and big pharma koolaid drinkin medical personnel.


72 posted on 06/16/2023 11:32:21 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: griffin
” I want little part of it. “

That's not what you were saying 13 years ago .. that about page looks like the story of a warrior.
I know the battle gets tiring, I feel it too.
And when you jump in the belly of the beast it can drain the life right out ... family ..friends ... business
Been there ... done that ...
Some folks make the mistake of thinking we can win this thing ... but that's not our job.
Our job is to let our light shine .. expose the darkness.
The blacker the darkness .. the brighter the light.
and in due time ..
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.

.. so saddle up big boy ..it ain't over yet

73 posted on 06/17/2023 12:01:00 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: grundle
First Do Massive Harm

74 posted on 06/17/2023 12:19:36 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: TheWriterTX

Wow. That’s a tragic story. I’m so sorry y’all experienced that from “medical professionals “.


75 posted on 06/17/2023 12:27:50 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: dragonblustar

“ We live in an area were stories like that are common, fathers molesting their children.”
**************************

Sorry, I don’t believe such errant behavior is “common” anywhere.


76 posted on 06/17/2023 12:30:47 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: TheWriterTX

That’s a terrible ordeal you described. I’m so sorry it happened to your family.

The physical issues manifested itself into mental and emotional problems. Then things got worse.

I’m hoping time and therapy will work.


77 posted on 06/17/2023 7:40:54 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( )
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To: grundle

What ever happened to ‘’First, do no harm’’?


78 posted on 06/17/2023 11:21:35 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: 1of10

I saw the corruption to the core first hand. I experienced the apathy. I came to the conclusion that things need to get ALOT worse before a critical mass is achieved. Once it is, things need to be burned to the ground and rebuilt from ground up. And there will be alot of blood involved. More than 99% of Americans can now stand. Thats why things have to get alot worse. As the DOI states, men will put up with alot until it gets unbearable.

There comes a time when you are throwing your pearls before swine and you need to put yourself in a position to withstand the coming storm. If you are taken out before that, wheres the fun in that?? I want to live to see corrupt tyrants swing.


79 posted on 06/18/2023 12:51:29 AM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: griffin
” wheres the fun in that?”

ya I feel you bud....

Sounds like your in about the right place to me ...

about that lots worse thing .... I think we're getting there ...
It is amazing to suddenly see people turning up at school board meetings,
and even tuning into congressional hearings .....
it's not like things just suddenly got like this...
It's just finally effecting people PERSONALY .
Nipping a lot of this in the bud would have been a simple thing if just a few more people had been willing to be inconvenienced.... now ..not so much.

80 posted on 06/18/2023 1:06:58 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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