A 20-year-old UCLA scholar has filed a lawsuit in opposition to a number of California docs, claiming she was misdiagnosed with gender dysphoria at age 12 and “fast-tracked onto a conveyor belt” of irreversible gender transition remedies.
Kaya Clementine Breen accused the Middle for Transyouth Well being and Growth at Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles of misdiagnosing her with gender dysphoria, a situation that results in misery when the gender identification doesn’t match the intercourse assigned at delivery, NBC Information reported.
Breen was sexually abused whereas she was younger, which later led to nervousness, melancholy, and post-traumatic stress dysfunction. At simply 11 years previous, she started scuffling with the concept of rising into a lady, believing life could be simpler as a boy. Searching for assist, she confided in her college counselor, who advised her she was transgender and directed her to the hospital the place she acquired the analysis and transition care.
At simply 12 years previous, Breen was prescribed puberty blockers, adopted by cross-sex hormones from ages 13 to 19. At 14, she underwent a double mastectomy to take away her breasts, a sequence of remedies she now claims had been rushed and life-altering.
Earlier this 12 months, Breen started dialectical conduct remedy, a type of speak remedy aimed toward serving to people handle intense feelings. It was throughout these periods that she began questioning her unique analysis.
Breen claimed that if she had acquired “actual, real remedy first, as an alternative of gender-specific remedy,” issues would have been totally different. This realization prompted her to file a lawsuit in opposition to a number of California healthcare suppliers and hospitals concerned in her analysis and remedy.
“This case is a few workforce of purported well being care suppliers who collectively determined {that a} susceptible woman scuffling with advanced psychological well being struggles and affected by a number of cases of sexual abuse ought to be prescribed a sequence of life-altering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, finally, obtain a double mastectomy on the age of 14,” the lawsuit mentioned.
In the meantime, a spokesperson from the Middle for Transyouth Well being and Growth at Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles advised NBC Information that the remedy on the middle is “patient- and family-centered, following tips from skilled organizations such because the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Affiliation, and Endocrine Society.”
“We don’t touch upon pending litigation; and out of respect for affected person privateness and in compliance with state and federal legal guidelines, we don’t touch upon particular sufferers and/or their remedy,” the spokesperson reportedly mentioned.
