A prominent doctor and transgender rights activist is accused of coaxing a pre-teen girl to undergo a sex change in order to get her to consent to hormone therapy and falsely telling her parents she was suicidal, according to reports. He is being sued.
Clementine Breen, now 20, filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Dr. Joanna Olson-Kennedy on Thursday, alleging that she was not given adequate psychological testing, mental health monitoring, or monitoring for side effects, and that she was not given proper psychological testing, mental health monitoring, or monitoring for side effects. He claimed that he was forced to undergo irreversible treatment to prevent his death. According to a report in The Economist magazine, this treatment.
Olson Kennedy, medical director of the Trans Youth Health Development Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, admits he refused to publish the results of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers were ineffective. , which received criticism in October. Improve children's mental health.
Breen's lawsuit claims Olson-Kennedy's clinic put her on puberty blockers when she was 12 years oldstarted her on hormone therapy at age 13 and had a double mastectomy at age 14, the outlet reported, citing the lawsuit and an interview with Breen.
Now, Breen wants to reverse her gender transition, but has suffered from certain changes, including a deeper-than-normal voice, an Adam's apple, and the possibility of infertility due to long-term testosterone intake, even though she no longer wants it. It's been bothering me my whole life.
She is also considering breast reconstruction surgery.
Breen, who studies theater at UCLA, said she wants to file the lawsuit to bring awareness to the lack of gatekeeping for young people looking to transition.
“People just dismiss what happened to me as something that doesn't happen,” she says.
In 2016, when she was 12 years old, Breen told her school's career guidance counselor that she might identify as transgender, lesbian or bisexual.
“I was never sure of my identity,” she told the outlet, citing unresolved mental health issues from the violence she suffered at the age of six from her autistic brother and sexual abuse from outside her family. He said he now believes there was trauma.
Even though Breen was unsure of her identity, a counselor called her parents to tell them their daughter was transgender, and by December 2016, the parents had brought Breen to Olson-Kennedy's clinic. I asked him to take me to.
According to medical records, Breen had not seen a psychologist about her feelings, which had just been expressed three months earlier.
But that didn't stop doctors from immediately putting Breen on the path to gender reassignment, the lawsuit alleges.
And at one point, when the parents said they were concerned about giving their child testosterone, the doctor said the fact that Breen was not suicidal or had not expressed suicidal thoughts. Despite this, he said he had suicidal thoughts.
Still, court documents allege, Olson-Kennedy told her that “Mr. Clemteen would commit suicide if she did not agree to heterosexual hormone therapy.”
