Lawsuit

The minor/trans issue comes to UC and UCLA. Note that St. Francis hospital in San Francisco is being acquired by UC-San Francisco. So it acquires this lawsuit as part of the takeover. The plaintiff is a UCLA student.

From the San Francisco Chronicle: One day after the Supreme Court heard arguments over states’ ability to ban gender-affirming care for minors, a 20-year-old UCLA student sued two California doctors, saying they inappropriately rushed her “down a life-altering … and irreversibly damaging” gender transition beginning at age 12. 

The lawsuit, filed [last] Thursday by Kaya Clementine Breen in Los Angeles County Superior Court, argues that Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who runs the largest transgender youth clinic in the U.S. as the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, diagnosed Breen with gender dysmorphia “mere minutes” into their first appointment, just after Breen had turned 12.

Olson-Kennedy “recommended surgical implantation of puberty blockers” at that initial meeting, the suit says. Over the next several years, Breen received puberty blockers and took hormones, and, at age 14, received a double mastectomy. The suit accuses Olson-Kennedy of concealing important information about the risks and impacts of the treatments and misrepresenting evidence about their efficacy. Olson-Kennedy has come under fire recently after she told the New York Times that she delayed releasing a widely anticipated study on the effects of puberty-blocking treatment on transgender youth because of the toxic political climate...

The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, also names San Francisco-based Dr. Scott Mosser and St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco as defendants, alleging that Mosser “rubber-stamped” Breen’s double mastectomy...

Full story at https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/lawsuit-transgender-health-care-19964425.php.

The lawsuit is at https://www.scribd.com/document/801688949/Clementine-Breen-lawsuit.