Go ahead! I was able to convince over 81 million people to vote for me.
Posted on 12/05/2022 8:53:17 AM PST by karpov
“Sometimes in the shower, I realize they’re gone. I just have these scars.”
Camille Kiefel, 32, had her healthy breasts removed in 2020 to align with her nonbinary gender identity. She says her doctors approved the surgery after two Zoom meetings, breezing past a whole host of mental health issues.
Now that Camille is in a better place mentally, she realizes her surgery was a mistake. So, two and a half years later, she’s suing her social worker, therapist, and the gender clinics they work for — Brave Space Oregon and Quest Center for Integrative Health — seeking up to $850,000 in damages.
As a child, Camille never gave her gender identity a thought. But when her best friend was raped by a relative in sixth grade, she said she became acutely aware of her femininity. Around that time her father also imparted well-meaning advice that backfired.
“My dad told me about how men talked about girls, because he wanted to protect me and to get me to dress more conservatively,” she told The Post. “But it made my anxiety worse. All that really screwed me up. I remember I was even afraid to be alone.”
From that point on, she began dressing more androgynously. “I didn’t want to highlight my curves. I had a lot of discomfort around my breasts and hips.”
But the idea that she might not actually be a woman didn’t occur to Camille until she enrolled at Portland State University, where she minored in gender studies and was introduced to alternative views about sex and gender.
By the time she reached her mid-20s, she embraced a nonbinary label and used she/they pronouns. All the while, she was struggling with a slew of mental-health issues, including anxiety disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, major depressive disorder and ADHD.
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I heard earlier today about a man who is suing a gynecological surgeon for refusing to perform a hysterectomy on him.
She may have a hard time winning this case since she was an adult when this nonsense was going on.
I have to not care when some friends vote Dem. I’’m a woman too. My male friends are more logical and Republican. Women often suffer from that incurable disease, Lackalogic. especially women with advanced degrees.
She should be suing Oregon State for teaching such vile crap.
Well, what if?
Apparently, its all ok! They had the opportunity to say no and did not. Why should they be sued now?
I recall a number of years ago, some deaf parents wanted a deaf child and some medico was right there to help...because, well...they WANTED it.
We are collectively insane.
Very much agree!
Yet you have hospitals BRAGGING how they offer child mutilation services...
Hey, once she met Russian surgeon Tora Titov, there is no going back.
She was mentally ill and predatory monsters preyed on her in the midst of her mental illness for their own benefit. So sue ‘em.
BTW, ALL trans people are by definition, mentally ill.
Statute of limitations. The fact that she was an adult and the surgery was consensual, and she hadn’t been adjudicated insane, and wasn’t acting insane, other than wanting a boob-out-o-me and an ad-a-dic-to-me. I don’t see this lawsuit going anywhere.
That’s sort of my viewpoint. These people are mentally ill, and that needs to be taken into account. Mentally ill people are not competent to make decisions about having their bodies mutilated.
I guess you can CHOOSE to get some nice, firm silicon ones, from a different doctor.
They may spend quite a bit longer in a place that they will really not like very much.
Go ahead! I was able to convince over 81 million people to vote for me.
Morally, you may be correct. However, many medical malpractice claims are based upon the "lack of informed consent." Thus, the health care workers may be liable if they encouraged this person to have mutilation surgery without first addressing the underlying mental health issues. In other words, the person would not have consented to the surgery if she had been told that desire to cut off her breasts and pretend to be a male may be the result of a mental health issue that can be treated without irreversible mutilation surgery.
“Almost all lawyers are extremely far left...”
When you claim “almost all” do you mean 99%, 90%, 50.1%? I ask, because I am a conservative lawyer and I know many other conservative lawyers. In fact, the Federalist Society is comprised of ~70,000 conservative lawyers and not all conservative lawyers are members of the federalist Society.
She was 30 something years old, fully an adult. I have no sympathies for her.
Haha. I remember that song. :-)
She ought to sue the University and her instructors too. They had a part in it as well.
Good point.
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