https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-doctor-in-trans-youth-medicine-sued-for-medical-negligence-by-former-patient/Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the nation’s leading practitioner of transgender youth medicine, faces a medical-negligence lawsuit for the irreversible treatments she administered to a former patient, who has since detransitioned.Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, alleges Olson-Kennedy, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and numerous other defendants rushed her into transitioning to a male in spite of her struggles with mental health and history of suffering sexual abuse. The plaintiff’s transgender treatments involved puberty blockers at age 12, cross-sex hormones at 13, and finally a double mastectomy at 14. The complaint was filed Thursday in Los Angeles, where the pediatric hospital is located.Olson-Kennedy, who serves as medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at CHLA, allegedly performed no psychological assessment, failed to ask Breen about her past trauma and mental state, and diagnosed gender dysphoria without consulting any other physicians. Furthermore, Olson-Kennedy allegedly did not adequately take into account the detrimental effects that puberty blockers would have on Breen’s bone density.
The lawsuit accuses the primary defendant of outright lying in several instances. Olson-Kennedy lied to Breen and her parents that puberty blockers were “completely reversible,” according to the suit. The pediatric doctor also allegedly lied about Breen’s purported suicidal thoughts to her parents when trying to convince them about hormonal therapy.The young girl had no suicidal thoughts, the lawsuit says, nor did she express that she had any during her medical appointments.Olson-Kennedy then allegedly lied that Breen would commit suicide if she did not receive cross-sex hormones. Confronted with their daughter’s hypothetical death, the parents relented and agreed to the testosterone treatment. Breen also hesitantly agreed.“Upon information and belief, threatening that a child will commit suicide unless undergoing cross-sex medicalization is a common tactic Dr. Olson-Kennedy and others at LA Children’s engage in to convince uninformed parents who are averse to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgery to treat their gender-confused children,” the 29-page lawsuit states.Olson-Kennedy later recommended that Breen get a double mastectomy, a surgical procedure that removes both breasts. The doctor again misled the minor and parents, claiming it’s important to undergo the procedure at an early age because the healing process would be supposedly easier than at a later age, according to the suit.“That is, if she wanted a ‘natural,’ ‘cis male-looking chest,’ they had to do it now,” the lawsuit says.In a letter to the mastectomy surgeon, who is one of the many defendants, Olson-Kennedy said Breen had “endorsed a male gender identity since childhood” — a clear misrepresentation of the patient’s gender identity. This claim was contradicted by Olson-Kennedy’s own records
The surgeon proceeded with the double mastectomy, even though he did not meet Breen himself the day before the surgery. He met with Breen and her mother for about 30 minutes the morning of the surgery.After the transgender treatments, Breen began suffering extreme depression, anger, and suicidal thoughts, the suit says. Wracked with mental health issues, she started harming her own body and even attempted suicide.Breen stopped taking testosterone last year and started detransitioning in March, The Economist reported Friday after interviewing the plaintiff. She is considering breast reconstruction surgery.“I mentioned that I might be trans,” she said in recalling a conversation with her high school guidance counselor, “but I also mentioned that I might be a lesbian and that I might be bisexual, like I wasn’t really sure about my identity at all.”Her confusion likely stemmed from trauma following a violent encounter with her severely autistic brother and sexual abuse that started as early as six or seven years old. She reportedly was sexually assaulted again months before her mastectomy. No psychiatrist or doctor had ever asked her about sexual trauma, the lawsuit notes.
The plaintiff is seeking monetary damages for rushed medical treatments, about which she hopes to raise more awareness.“People are just brushing exactly what happened to me off as something that doesn’t happen,” she told The Economist.CHLA said it does not comment on pending litigation or patients and their treatments.Olson-Kennedy has come under intense scrutiny for refusing to publish the findings of a nearly $10 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health that found no evidence that puberty blockers improved the mental health of children.In a revealing interview with the New York Times in October, she admitted that the long-awaited study would be “weaponized” by critics of transgender youth treatments and that the findings would be used in court to argue against puberty blockers. The study began in 2015.Six Republican senators took issue with the unpublished NIH study in a Thursday letter to NIH director Monica Bertagnolli, inquiring about the lack of transparency in taxpayer-funded medical studies.The lawsuit and letter come after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti regarding a Tennessee law that bans so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. The Court’s conservative majority is expected to uphold the ban.
>>1367232Hopefully we can expect to see similar lawsuits.Trans literally is the medical industry attempting to profit off of mentally ill individuals.>My doctor says to do what the voices in my head tell me and mutilate my body!I'm not sure how this could ever be considered valid medical treatment.
>>1367232These innocent doctors are providing an important service of sterilizing idiots who are paying them to do it.
>>1367232This whole lawsuit seems fishy. Why would you need the mastectomy if you were already on blockers and hormones? There's no chest to restructure.Also, a lot of the claims don't make sense even with a "they're just trying to make money through selling hormones!" explanation. Why would you ask for a surgery when hormones would have the same effect for longer and make you more money long term? We gotta see where this goes but I have a feeling that there's some bullshit going on here. It doesn't help detransitioners have a history of just using their position to scam money out of reactionists the same way "ex-gays" do.
>>1367270>This whole lawsuit seems fishy. Why would you need the mastectomy if you were already on blockers and hormones? There's no chest to restructure.That's the part that makes it seem the least fishy. Did your transbrain misinterpret it?
>>1367263This is true for adults. But it's different when they brainwash a 12-year-old girl like this. Although I guess it's her idiot parents' fault, and now they don't get grandchildren.>>1367270>Why would you need the mastectomy if you were already on blockers and hormones? There's no chest to restructureshe could have already started developing breasts by the time the hormones took effect.>Why surgery instead of hormones?false dichotomy, they do the surgery and keep her on the hormones.>It doesn't help detransitioners have a history of just using their position to scam money out of reactionistslol as opposed to the medical industry using their title of "expert" to scam gullible, mentally vulnerable people into self-mutilation?
The right bigot scum got hold of this poor confused tranny, and inoculated them with the brain dead mind virus.this kudos is being used by both the woke/sleeping dead extremists.
>>1367280Kudos=kid I must turd off autocorrect whenvi phone pist
>>1367273The problem is the allegations are too outlandish for even greed-motivated malpractice. The lawsuit implies they never did ANY of the required things as doctors, which I get is the subject but it's to the extent where you start wondering how somehow there's this many defendants and not one noticed even though only a handful would've gotten the profits. Also, not in this article but others on this subject, CONVIENTLY her therapy notes from after all of this got lost.
>>1367284If her therapy notes got lost, that would be on the therapist and would seem very suspicious for the therapist, not the woman. And it sounds like mostly the main doctor, Olson-Kennedy (whose entire career is based on tricking vulnerable mentally ill people into getting bullshit treatment) is the one who really fucked up, while others (like the surgeon) just relied on Olson-Kennedy's diagnosis
>>1367279>false dichotomy, they do the surgery and keep her on the hormones.Except most medical frauds designed to make profit AVOID surgery like that. It gives more of a trail and more incentive for the mark to realize they've been tricked and sue for more than they could've made. They're smart enough to coordinate everything this much, but dumb enough to not realize that?
>>1367297anon... they already tricked a girl and her parents into believing that she needs male hormones, that she needs to be referred to as a boy, that she should wear boys' clothes, and that she actually IS a boy. Why not convince her she needs surgery too? Besides, with the LGBTQIABBQ mob saying that cutting the tits off is a necessary part of transition, the patients expect it now.
>>1367298The whole argument is this was done for profit. Also, not true. There's plenty of trans people who don't get surgery at all. Hell if anything that makes this even more suspect; it's hard for actual trans people to get surgery, yet they speedrun this kid for no reason?I'd honestly be looking more into what the parents told the doctors.
>>1367298>, with the LGBTQIABBQ mob saying that cutting the tits off is a necessary part of transitionLet me guess, you saw 5 people on twitter say that so you think the entire left wing agrees.
>>1367300>it's hard for actual trans people to get surgery, yet they speedrun this kid for no reason?no it's not. You're thinking of bottom surgery (which still isn't that hard to get). Breast removal surgery is easy to get and this isn't the first time an underage girl had it done.>what the parents told the doctorsnot relevant. Even if the parents told the doctors "Our daughter is a boy" then the doctors should have responded "she's obviously not a boy" and then sent her to a psychiatrist.>>1367303LMAO the left really got BTFO so badly that you have to pretend trans rights is just a fringe issue that virtually no leftist cares about. Did you think we forgot that a few months ago you were calling Republicans transphobic because they didn't want 13-year-old girls to have their breasts removed?
>>1367540Good post
>>1367540trans rights is just a fringe issue that only terminally online culture warriors care about>>1367541Bot post
>>1367303its the consensus so yes retard, enough of this lol its just a handful of people they don't represent us bullshit after you've cherrypicked people for decades claiming everyone who doesnt agree with you is a nazi.
>>1367284Or, now hear me out on this one, transgenderism is the latest disease being overdiagnosed and rushed to "treat" by medical professionals who are really fucking bad another jobs, like ADHD was 20 years ago.
>>1367546>>1367303>ummmm actually Democrats and leftists don't even care about trannieskek. Now tell me about how nobody on the left supported the COVID lockdowns. Or wait, tell me about how the Democrats are tough on border security! That's my favorite gaslighting
