It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Sued
Transgender treatments are not without risks for the providers.
An important but underappreciated reason for the transgender phenomenon and the increasing targeting of children for surgical procedures is the colossal amount of money doctors, hospitals, other medical professionals, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, pharmacists, psychological counselors, and others stand to gain. For example, transgender people must take expensive hormone treatments for the rest of their lives—a reliable revenue stream that pharma companies encourage by promoting the transgender movement.
These treatments are not without risks and unhappy side effects, however, to say the least, and it was inevitable the providers and enablers of transgender transitions would end up being called to account by the one group of people they cannot buy off with lobbying and public relations: their customers. That day has come, The Epoch Times reports:
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 “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” 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. …
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.
“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,” the suit reads.
The doctors and institutions involved in Kayla’s (a pseudonym) procedure are now facing blowback for performing an obviously drastic procedure on a troubled adolescent:
The defendants are Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and the Permanente Medical groups, both part of the nonprofit Kaiser Permanente; Watson; and doctors who work for or are affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
The tort system is an appropriate venue in which to determine difficult questions of this type. If transgender therapy is both beneficial and harmless, those behind it have nothing to fear. These cases indicate that there may be much for them to be concerned about.
This is in fact at least the second such lawsuit filed this year, The Epoch Times reports. I believe that these are just the first of what will turn out to be many such cases.