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Girl Sues Hospital For Removing Her Breasts At Age 13
SATURDAY, JUN 17, 2023 - 01:45 PM
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times
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 āideological and profit-driven medical abuseā 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.
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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,ā the suit reads.
āInstead,
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 patientās wishes.ā
Doreen Samelson, a psychologist not named as a defendant, by contrast, told Jane and her parents that she couldnāt receive puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones due to factors such as her age.
Jane, whose given name is Kayla Lovdahl, has since ādetransitioned,ā or resumed identifying as a girl.
Sheās 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 ātransitionā 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 didnāt provide Jane with informed consent, according to the suit. Instead,
the defendants claimed that the dysphoria wouldnāt resolve unless she underwent the procedure.
At one point, one allegedly told her parents,
āWould you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?ā
Layla Jane after her operation. (Courtesy of Dhillon Law Group)
āNobodyānone of my doctorsātried anything to make me comfortable in my body, or meaningfully pushed back or asked questions; they only affirmed,ā Jane
told The Epoch Times.
Jane said she didnāt feel better after her surgery. She suffered nerve damage and other issues. She says sheās happier since she detransitioned.
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PS. The parents aren't going to have any grandchildren. Their lines end with them.
