At 13 years old, both of her breasts were removed because she thought she was a boy. Now, this California woman is suing the doctors and the hospital that oversaw the so-called “gender-affirming” procedure, alleging they were just in it for the money.
As BizPac Review reported back in March, now 18, Kayla Lovdahl — who also uses the pseudonym “Layla Jane” — struggled with her mental health from the time she was six. She first heard about transgenderism when she was just 11.
De-transitioning teen who ‘desperately needed help’ to sue doctors who removed her breasts at 13 https://t.co/K3qjZXiuFq pic.twitter.com/AGLsfyO8WO
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) March 20, 2023
A March press release from her attorneys, the Center for American Liberty, explained that she “desperately needed help” as a child but had instead “found herself under the ‘care’ of medical professionals who chemically and surgically mutilated her body.”
“From ages 6 to 11 years old, [Lovdahl] had a few intermittent and irregular psychiatric/psychological counseling sessions with various different providers for the following: anxiety issues, extreme mood fluctuations, self-harm, problems at school resulting in suspensions, social issues, oppositional behavior, defiant behavior, anger, and related issues,” the press release read.
“At age 11, [Lovdhal] heard about transgenderism, did extensive ‘research’ online, and self-diagnosed that she was actually a ‘boy’, and that transitioning would be the solution to all of her mental problems,” it continued. “This was all doctors needed to irreversibly change her life forever.”
Today, Lovdahl has filed a lawsuit in California State Court against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Permanente Medical Group, and the four doctors involved alleging medical negligence.
The @Liberty_Ctr cases against Kaiser that Layla Jane & Chloe Cole, w/@PaulJonna & Charles LiMandri & Thomas More Society, are landmark cases aiming to put an end to the immoral, barbaric, and nature-denying mutilation of American children by woke docs. Proud to lead this fight! https://t.co/i7XLMybXRB
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) June 15, 2023
“This case is about a team of doctors (i.e., the Defendants) who decided to perform a damaging, imitation sex change experiment on Kayla, then a twelve-year-old vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health co-morbidities, who needed care, attention, and psychotherapy, not cross-sex hormones and mutilating surgery,” the complaint states.
According to the lawsuit, Lovdahl and her parents, who suspected their daughter was bipolar (Lovdahl’s mother had been diagnosed as bipolar), “struggled consistently with Kayla’s mental health issues, regularly seeking assistance, but never received adequate treatment for her mental health issues.”
“Online transgender influencers,” the attorneys explain, “prompted Kayla to entertain the erroneous belief that she was transgender.”
Initially, three Kaiser doctors “advised Kayla and her parents that Kayla was too young for cross-sex hormones,” but the family was referred to three other doctors — all Defendants — “who immediately, and negligently, affirmed Kayla’s self- diagnosed transgenderism without adequate psychological evaluation. They instead promptly placed her on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12, and performed a double mastectomy within six months at age 13.”
All of this occurred after one doctor “determined in a single, 75-minute transition evaluation that Kayla was transgender.”
According to the lawsuit, Lovdahl was “figuratively handed… the prescription pad.”
“There is no other area of medicine where doctors will surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and intentionally induce a diseased state of the pituitary gland misfunction based simply on the young adolescent patient’s wishes,” the lawyers state.
The Defendants, they argue, “were horribly, and inexcusably wrong, as Kayla was not transgender and was not a person that any reasonable physician could ascertain would permanently maintain a transgender identity. Consequently, she detransitioned when she was 17 years old, and she eventually started regular psychotherapy sessions for her mental health symptoms, which is the care she should have been receiving all along.”
Lovdahl’s lawsuit also argues that she and her parents were not provided “with proper informed consent”:
Defendants obscured and concealed important information from the patient and her parents such as the following: the conflicting studies in this area; the significant evidence demonstrating poor mental health outcomes; the existence of only low to very low-quality studies purportedly supporting hormonal interventions and the absence of control groups in such studies; the significant likelihood that desired outcomes would not be attained; the significant possibility of desistence, detransition and regret; and the lack of accurate models for predicting desistence and detransition. They also did not disclose the significant health risks associated with a biological female taking off-label puberty blockers and high doses of powerful male hormone drugs having many effects other than those desired.
What’s more, Lovahl’s parents were told “that Kayla’s dysphoria would never resolve unless she chemically/surgically transitioned, and that she represented a high-risk of suicide unless she transitioned.”
“These were material, false representations,” the lawsuit argues. “Defendants’ coercion, concealment, misrepresentations, and manipulation are appalling and represent an egregious breach of the standard of care. This misconduct also constitutes fraud, malice, and oppression.”
“Kayla has suffered physically, socially, neurologically, and psychologically. Among other harms, she has suffered mutilation to her body, fertility risks, health risks, and lost opportunities for social and physical development along with her peers, and at key developmental milestones that can never be regained,” according to the filing. “Defendants were not ‘caring’ for Kayla; they were experimenting on her.”
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