UCLA student sues California doctors, says she was 'fast-tracked' into transgender surgery

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A UCLA student is suing multiple California health care providers and hospitals for medical negligence, alleging she was wrongly diagnosed with gender dysphoria and then “fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery, according to her lawsuit.

Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, said she experienced sexual abuse as a young child, and by the time she was 11, she “began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy,” according to her suit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court. When she expressed this to her then-school counselor, the counselor told her “that she was transgender and called her parents to tell them the same.”

Breen, who was also suffering from anxiety, depression and undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the lawsuit, was then taken by her parents to the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she said she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria — the distress one can experience when their gender identity and birth sex are in conflict — and began to receive transition-related care at 12 years old.

“This case is about a team of purported health care providers who collectively decided that a vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health struggles and suffering from multiple instances of sexual abuse should be prescribed a series of life-altering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, ultimately, receive a double mastectomy at the age of 14,” Breen’s lawsuit states.

Breen began receiving puberty-suppressing medication at 12, was prescribed cross-sex hormones from 13 to 19 and underwent a double mastectomy at 14, according to court documents, which stated that her “her mental health progressively declined” following these treatments.

In an interview with NBC News on Thursday, Breen said, “In retrospect, I wish that somebody had suggested real, genuine therapy first, instead of gender-specific therapy, because really the only therapy that I received until much later was specifically focused on gender dysphoria, and didn’t connect my gender dysphoria to anything else.”

Breen said she began to question her decision to transition after she started dialectical behavior therapy, a type of talk therapy that seeks to help those struggling with intense emotions, earlier this year.
“I sort of started questioning my own gender identity and if I was doing this for the right reasons,” she said.

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She is not alone!

12! "puberty-suppressing medication at 12, was prescribed cross-sex hormones from 13 to 19 and underwent a double mastectomy at 14"

I hope she's successful and that all the medics caught up in this appalling "healthcare " have to pay her massive compensation. Utter ghouls, the lot of them

I hope she succeeds, poor mutilated child.

That poor, poor child. Sexually abused then physically mutilated by unprofessional manipulative medics with their own biased agenda.
There will be more cases like hers.

I hope she’s not letting her parents off the hook for what happened to her.

Leaving aside the abuse and how that happened / wasn’t discovered earlier (fair enough that may not have been their fault), they presumably had to sign off on the fucking butcher’s bill and pay for the chemical castration.

And there we have it.
Once the lawyers get involved this will accelerate the end of this barbaric ideology.
My heart breaks for this cohort of tragic children.

I heard an interview she gave where she said her parents were against her transition but were told by the physician that she (Clementine) would commit suicide if it wasn't done.
Clementine says she wasn't suicidal at the time, but she did try to kill herself after starting on testosterone as she became quite psychotic on it.
This physician was supposed to be one of the best in caring for transgender children so they placed their trust in her to help their child.
This is the same doctor who we now know did research into puberty blockers but suppressed the results as the findings would be "weaponised" by gender critical activists.
She also said that giving girls double mastectomies wasn't a big deal as they could get implants if they changed their minds.

I listened to a Blocked and Reported episode last night that talked about this case - Jesse has interviewed Clementine for The Economist.

On the podcast Jesse said that all three practitioners have been made to turn over their records on Clementine but the therapist who wrote Clementine’s surgical referral (who is a long time collaborator with the dr who prescribed the blockers and testosterone) has only submitted notes from Clementine’s first two appointments, claiming the rest have been ‘water damaged’.

The surgeon had received recommendations from both doctor and therapist, but the case history was different (Dr said early childhood onset cross sex identity, therapist said pubertal onset). Surgeon seemingly either didn’t notice the discrepancy or didn’t care.

Podcast episode here:

www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-240-political-violence-is

Economist article here: archive.ph/yTdbh

Thanks - some of these clinicians need to improve their file storage protocols.

Crucial documents seem to end up ‘water damaged’ - a risk you’d think they’d anticipate in a State like Los Angeles. 🙄

The article mentions that her brother is autistic; as it tends to run in families there is a chance she is, too, but in a different way. This may have contributed to her distress, too (apart from the external reasons) and should also have been considered before anything else.

She also said that giving girls double mastectomies wasn't a big deal as they could get implants if they changed their minds.

It's like people's bodies are reduced to Mr Potato Head. Chop a bit off, and if you're not happy, don't worry, we can make you a new one.

Just a coincidence that all of that costs money.
I don't see the same leftists who are excited about the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO questioning who is making money off of transition surgery and hormones, because they believe it's necessary care, but still.

Of course since it's NBC they can't help adding some copy telling you what you should think.

What if she wants kids one day and wants to breastfeed. Stupid surgeon. Like breasts are just reduced to being round blobs on the front of your chest, without any use at all.

Poor girl. The whole thing is so awful.

Although not in any excusing the behaviour of the medical "professionals" dont forget in the US there was a big push to get gender dysphoria reclassifed so that it was no longer a mental health conditions which meant it would then be covered by health insurance.

So whether this was because of being captured or just plain money making, it doesn't explain why in the UK the NHS has behaved similarly.

As so many of us have said on so many thread, it is really common that as women's bodies change around puberty all sorts of worries can arise. Not just the physical changes but the knowledge, just from life, that having a women's body means you become subjected to all the discrimination, exploitation, and violence of a male dominated world.

How could they have taken this young woman's concerns about the changes she was experiencing as meaning she was trans, and not the more obvious and widely know experience fears and doubts at this point of her life cycle.

Disgusting.

Telling parents their child will die without them spending vast amounts of money sounds a lot like demanding money with menaces. Also, 'your child can either die or have bits chopped off' is some kind of dystopian torture story.

Poor poor young woman.