At only 18, Kayla Lovdahl had already became a boy, regretted this decision and went back to being a woman. Now she is taking the doctors and hospitals that allegedly rushed her through gender treatment to court.
Her story is shocking but not extraordinary.
Based on her lawsuit filed in a California state court last week, Kayla first decided she was a boy at age 11 after learning about a web based transgender community.
She claims that on the age of 12, doctors prescribed her puberty blockers and testosterone, who did not provide sufficient psychological testing and who told her parents: “It is healthier to have a living son than a dead daughter.”
On the age of 13, Kayla had her healthy breasts removed during a double mastectomy to masculinize her chest. And at 17, she realized it had all been a mistake – and that the professionals round her had did not protect her.
“The toughest part was selling something I believed would help me and make me feel higher, only to do it and walk out the opposite side not feeling higher” – Kayla he said in an interview with YouTube. “I could at all times wait, but I am unable to undo it.”
The California native is suing Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and 4 individual doctors in search of unspecified damages for causing “deep physical and emotional wounds and deep regret.”
“They essentially handed Kayla a prescription pad and let her naive, emotional, childish rollercoaster of feelings dictate the so-called ‘treatment’ she would receive,” the lawsuit claims.
Kayla’s attorney, Mark E. Trammell of the Center for American Liberty, told The Post that the hospital and doctors “have violated the standards of care they’re alleged to uphold as medical professionals” by allowing her to change so quickly.
In a press release, a representative from Kaiser Permanente told The Post: “When teenage patients, with parental consent, seek gender-confirming care, the patient care team fastidiously assesses their treatment options after which a multidisciplinary team of physicians and other experienced professionals can be found to supply the patient and their family with information , counseling and other support.
“Care decisions are at all times made by the patient and their parents or guardians, and we at all times respect the proper of patients and their families to make informed decisions about their health.”
Sadly, Kalya joins a growing group of young people who find themselves open about their regrets about their gender reassignment.
I first reported on detransitioners a yr ago, when the phenomenon was still little known. My report was cited by the House Oversight and Reform Committee in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, warning of shortcomings in gender-affirming look after minors.
In recent months, increasingly more detransferrs and health professionals have sounded the alarm about rushed gender care.
But many detransitioners who’re brave enough to share their warnings have been rejected by the identical community of transgender activists that when welcomed them.
I think there are goodwill advocates who’re genuinely committed to helping troubled children find their true selves. But it surely’s obvious that any rush to label children as “trans” and speed up their transition through medical transition could have devastating consequences.
Even someone who supports transgender rights to medical transition should pause to think about a 13-year-old – barely a teen – who was allowed to remove healthy body parts, often only on the premise of a sudden and up to date conviction that they were born within the unsuitable body.
But since it has change into a culture war issue, we’re faced with the false selection between “grooming children” and “supporting transgender genocide.”
It is feasible to oppose the medical transformation of minors while adopting a “live and let live” mentality on the subject of adults. There may be common sense, a compassionate compromise.
Even countries that was once probably the most progressive in treating trans youth are coming to this conclusion. France, SwedenFinland and Great Britain all inhibited gender-affirming look after minors.
Now’s the time for America to do the identical.
Unfortunately, one other frontier on this battle requires teens who should never have been in this example to fight it out in court.
Trammell also represents Chloe Cole’s detransitioner an identical ongoing legal battle and says each cases “are really cutting-edge lawsuits on this country.” He believes the lawsuits “will make doctors and hospitals doing one of these surgery really give informed consent.”
Let’s hope their warnings stop more children from going under the knife.
Changing your haircut, name, or pronouns is one thing – but making irreversible medical decisions as a minor that may leave you sterile is totally different.
We do not even trust kids to commit to a tattoo until they’re 18. Allowing 13-year-olds like Kayla to undergo irreversible and invasive elective procedures like a double mastectomy is unacceptable.