This story is doing the rounds, even in the mainstream press. A 13-year old girl had her breasts removed as she thought that she was trans at the time, and the doctors and hospital went along with the operation. Now, as a woman, she is suing the California hospital and four doctors. She now claims that the procedures were “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse.” The case raises the issue, not adequately discussed in the trans debate, about the role of the medical profession and Big Pharma in profits from the transitioning process. Getting the new body can result in a six-figure bill, so it is not hard to see that one motive behind this is …money.
https://www.businessinsider.com/transgender-medical-care-surgery-expensive-2019-6
https://unherd.com/2022/06/the-doctors-profiting-from-trans-surgery/
“A California woman whose breasts were removed when she was 13-years-old because she thought she was transgender is now suing the doctors and hospital that oversaw the procedure — claiming they were in it for the money.
Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, says she was pushed to “entertain the erroneous belief that she was transgender” at age 11, after being exposed to online influencers, according to the lawsuit she filed in California State Court against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and four doctors.
“…they essentially handed Kayla the prescription pad, and allowed her naïve, emotional, childish, rollercoaster of feelings to dictate the so-called ‘treatment’ that she would receive,” according to the June 14 court papers.
Not knowing what to do when their daughter claimed she was a boy, her parents sought out help from medical professionals who quickly affirmed the girl’s idea that she was transgender, Lovdahl said.
By the age of 12 she was on hormone blockers and testosterone without a proper psychological evaluation, Lovdahl claims in the legal filing.
Lovdahl underwent a single 75-minute transition evaluation, she alleged.
“‘It is better to have a live son than a dead daughter,’ ” the physicians allegedly told the family.
The procedures were “idealogical and profit-driven medical abuse,” Lovdahl now maintains.
She detransitioned at age 17 and now feels the doctors were negligent, calling her earlier belief that she was transgender “mistaken.”
“Kayla was not transgender and was not a person that any reasonable physician could ascertain would permanently maintain a transgender identity,” Lovdahl claims in the suit.
Her mental health issues should have raised red flags for the doctors, Lovdahl said, pointing to medical studies that she said show young girls’s mental health is not often improved by transitioning.”