By Milo Haskour —
A slew of lawsuits against the medical practitioners who rushed kids into gender transition are making their way through courts. Likened to lawsuits brought against Big Tobacco, the lawsuits are upending the widespread rush to reassign.
Chloe Cole’s parents were told to either authorize the surgery or their daughter would die. She herself was advised in pretty bleak terms, and only one option was viable, she alleges in a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente over medical malpractice, lack of informed consent, emotional distress and punitive damages.
“Transitioning was the only choice that was ever spoken about,” Cole said. “There was no conversation about assistance, the risk of de-transitioning, and not even de-transition as a possibility that could happen to me… They medically transitioned me between the ages of 12 to 16, giving me puberty blockers, testosterone, and eventually ending in a double mastectomy surgery to get rid of my breasts, because this is something that has caused great harm in my life.”
One of her lawyers, Mark Trammell, CEO of the Center for American Liberty, says more lawsuits are likely.
“I think this is really like the tip of the spear for this type of litigation, specifically to the gender industrial complex,” Trammell says. “I kind of liken this to the early days of Big Tobacco litigation. When Chloe’s case is successful and when there’s a jury verdict awarding her damages, I think it’s going to encourage others to come forward.”
It was just bewildering how quickly the medical establishment accepted gender transitioning as unquestioned science during the Biden administration. On the internet, anyone doubting the wisdom of rushing kids through gender reassignment procedures was summarily canceled. Science is science, they said.
The gathering storm of lawsuits — at least 28 are already in courts — reveals that the “science” is a lot of political agenda.
Another suit just got settled for an undisclosed amount. Camille Kiefel originally sought $3.5M from two Oregon therapists who summarily signed off on a double mastectomy after just brief telemedicine sessions, disregarding Kiefel’s prior history of trauma, depression, suicidal ideation and ADHD, the complaint said.
“I didn’t want what happened to me to happen to other vulnerable girls and women,” Kiefel told Fox. “And I wasn’t given true informed consent. And that’s something that everyone deserves to have for any medical procedure.”
Hoping it would alleviate her distress, Kiefel transitioned to male. It didn’t work. After a year and a half, she de-transitioned. But she can’t get her breasts back.
Fox Varian was another. At only 16, she was “pushed” into a double mastectomy by New York doctors. A jury awarded Varian $2M from psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin in White Plains for ignoring standards of care and procedural guardrails by pressuring the minor into addressing gender dysphoria with permanent surgery.
Varian’s mother, Claire Deacon, testified that she opposed the surgery but consented to it out of fear her daughter would commit suicide. Eihhorn “was just so emphatic, and pushing and pushing, that I felt like there was no good decision,” Deacon told The Epoch Times. “I think it was a scare tactic. I don’t believe it was malice, I think he believed what he was saying — but he was very, very wrong.”
Clementine Breen is another victim of the gender industrial complex. She was only 12 when she told a guidance counselor she didn’t know if she was trans, lesbian or bisexual. Breen was uncertain, but the counselor was certain, and she informed Breen’s parents that their daughter was trans.
That set off a rapid chain of events that led from puberty blockers to double mastectomy in 2019 without anyone in the process bothering to do a proper psychological evaluation. Breen says she unresolved trauma from violence at the hands of her autistic brother and sexual abuse from someone outside the family at age 6, the lawsuit says.
Nor did anyone bother to see if the treatments were helping her psychological well-being. Breen’s medical records show that no one followed up on progress, despite her scary turn for the worse. In September 2020, a doctor found she was “compulsive cutting to see if he has blood,” the lawsuit says.
Now, Breen, a student at UCLA, is suing for medical negligence against her doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
There’s no irony that Olson-Kennedy admitted last year that she refused to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers didn’t improve the mental health of kids. She took the funding for the research, didn’t like the results and simply denied the scientific community access to the information.
Sources: Fox, Epoch News, New York Post, others.
