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Detransitioner: ‘I’m suing the doctors who removed my healthy breasts’
New York Post ^ | December 3, 2022 | Rikki Schlott

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: genitalmutilation; malpractice; topsurgery; transgender
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Fear of lawsuits may help stop the mutilation craze. Some Congressional Republicans have introduced the "The Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act". Universities that screw up students cannot be sued, but they can be defunded. From the article: "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."
1 posted on 12/05/2022 8:53:17 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Good luck with that. I think the case would be stronger suing her parents.


2 posted on 12/05/2022 8:54:38 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: karpov

Buyer’s remorse. She will lose.


3 posted on 12/05/2022 8:55:20 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: karpov

This is why trans-kids have maybe 2-3 more years until you never see them again - lawsuits. This woman will probably lose her lawsuit, but when kids that were operated on or given hormones under the age of 18 begin suing as adults, there’s not a judge out there that wouldn’t grant punitive damages.

Multiply that by all the former trans kids hunted down by liability lawyers and doctors and therapists will simply stop providing services to non-adults.


4 posted on 12/05/2022 8:57:01 AM PST by struggle
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To: karpov; numberonepal

“until she enrolled at Portland State University, where she minored in gender studies”

No sympathy.


5 posted on 12/05/2022 8:57:10 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Machine-gun jumblies. How'd I miss that? - Austin Powers 2)
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To: karpov

“”Portland State University, where she minored in gender studies””

A real serious student there! She deserves to have her student loans forgiven!

When does the crazy stop?


6 posted on 12/05/2022 8:57:46 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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Fear of lawsuits may help stop the mutilation craze.

Yes. Right now the profit incentive to mutilate children and mentally troubled adults overwhelms any ethical concerns for far too many doctors and hospitals. Money talks - sue the holy hell out of these doctors and hospitals, and they may finally stop to ask whether the patient is even capable of making rational decisions about removing perfectly healthy body parts.
7 posted on 12/05/2022 8:57:51 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: karpov

We need to bring back mental hospitals.

Just don’t hire Nurse Ratched.


8 posted on 12/05/2022 8:58:52 AM PST by EEGator
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Not to be cold or accepting of this, but the surgery happened when she was 30 years old. It was her choice to mutilate her body.

OTOH, all of the gender nonsense happening to children (mental, chemical, physical) needs to punished and punished HARD!

9 posted on 12/05/2022 8:59:25 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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> All the while, she was struggling with a slew of mental-health issues, including anxiety disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, major depressive disorder and ADHD.

Bingo! The common thread linking every “female-presenting non-binary person” I’ve ever met. They need GOOD mental health care, not a chopmytitsoffame.


10 posted on 12/05/2022 9:00:04 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (If Black Lives Matter, how do you explain Chicago?)
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To: Thank You Rush
"When does the crazy stop?"

The crazy will never stop, the genie cannot be put back into the bottle. This world will never be as it was, that's just the nature of time. Hang on cause it's gonna be a bumpy ride
11 posted on 12/05/2022 9:01:18 AM PST by The Louiswu (- .-. ..- -- .--. / ..--- ----- ..--- ....-)
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Camille Kiefel, 32, had her healthy breasts removed in 2020 to align with her nonbinary gender identity.


12 posted on 12/05/2022 9:01:56 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: brownsfan

She had the surgery in 2020 and she is 32?

She was all grown up.

While I decry the ethics of these surgeries in general, she knew what she was doing. Suing the folks who gave her what she asked for is not going to go well, imho.


13 posted on 12/05/2022 9:02:59 AM PST by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: Sirius Lee

We could use more Red Foremans as fathers...


14 posted on 12/05/2022 9:04:37 AM PST by EEGator
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To: brownsfan

“ I think the case would be stronger suing her parents.”

The doc who sawed off her breasts ought to have some liability.


15 posted on 12/05/2022 9:04:40 AM PST by NeverCheney
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To: struggle
former trans kids hunted down by liability lawyers

Almost all lawyers are extremely far left, so don't expect that to be a very big bandwagon. Those that do will be attacked by the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of the media, etc. They will most certainly risk disbarment.

Besides, the Rats will most likely shield the tranny industry the way they shielded Clot Shot manufacturers.

16 posted on 12/05/2022 9:05:26 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: karpov

What a sad story. You can’t help but sympathize with this poor, confused kid and be very angry at the whole crooked, insane, liberal establishment that urged her to destroy her very femininity.


17 posted on 12/05/2022 9:05:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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“...she minored in gender studies...”

If the school is completely honest, this would be the easiest course in the world...

XY chromosomes=male
XX chromosomes=female

End of course...


18 posted on 12/05/2022 9:06:48 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: brownsfan

In a sane America...


19 posted on 12/05/2022 9:07:00 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Adder

“ She had the surgery in 2020 and she is 32?

She was all grown up.”

Yes, but that shouldn’t let the doctor off the hook. Just because a nutcase asks him to mutilate her, doesn’t give him immunity for complying. What if she’d asked him to saw off both of her legs and drill a hole in her skull?


20 posted on 12/05/2022 9:07:02 AM PST by NeverCheney
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