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Another victim of gender ideology sues the “don’t judge” predators

We’re seeing a lot of stories of vulnerable young people who were bullied and manipulated into taking puberty blockers and/or hormones and/or sex-mutilation surgery. I’ve got a new story about a detransitioner below, and link to a few other stories, so that we can understand who is on “the right side of history” on social issues. Is it “don’t judge” teachers? Is it the greedy doctors? Let’s see.

Here’s the first article from Daily Wire:

A woman who was pumped with testosterone and underwent hormone therapy when she was a young teenager is suing both her doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics, which her lawyers say has knowingly lied about the impact of the radical sex-change treatments it recommends, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire.

Isabelle Ayala, now a twenty-year-old woman, had just turned fourteen when she was committed to the hospital for suicidal thoughts, according to the lawsuit. It was during this hospital stay that she met with Dr. Jason Rafferty, who during his first brief meeting with Ayala determined that she “meets criteria to consider hormonal transition,” with the only stated obstacle being parental consent. The lawsuit states that Rafferty and other doctors sent Ayala down the “path of ‘gender-affirming’ medicalization” rather than addressing the true roots of her mental health problems — six months into her testosterone treatments, Ayala tried to commit suicide.

The treatments, however, continued, until Ayala moved away from Rhode Island and decided to quit them “cold-turkey.” Now comfortable with her gender, she regrets what the doctors did to her, the lawsuit says.

“Isabelle is now twenty years old and longs for what could have been and to have her healthy, female body back,” it says. “The changes the testosterone have had on her body are a constant reminder that she needed an unbiased medical expert willing to evaluate her mental health and provide her the care she needed, rather than a group of ideologues set on promoting their own agenda and furthering a broader conspiracy at her expense.”

The lawsuit not only goes after the doctors who treated Ayala, but also the American Academy of Pediatrics, where Rafferty and his colleagues worked to publish a now-infamous policy statement advocating for aggressive gender treatments for children. Lawyers for Ayala say the policy statement laid the groundwork for an “entirely new model of treatment” based on “outright fraudulent representations” of scientific proof.

“Defendants have doubled- and tripled-down on their commitment to the policy statement and its ‘affirmative model’ of treatment, while continuing to promote and profit off it,” the lawsuit states, alleging that Ayala and other children are “victims of a conspiracy entered into and perpetuated to the present day by certain ideologically captured individuals in positions of power at the American Academy of Pediatrics.”

The interesting thing about this story is that the medical body of “experts” is being targeted. This is an opportunity to start the process of impoverishing and imprisoning them all, to send a message to the secular left.

Here’s another one from Daily Signal:

Another detransitioner is suing Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Permanente Medical Group, and the doctors who pushed her along the path to hormonal and surgical transgender procedures.

In a lawsuit filed June 14 in California’s San Joaquin County Superior Court, Kayla Lovdahl and her attorneys with the Center for American Liberty are accusing medical professionals of fast-tracking young Lovdahl through her gender transition, one that she now deeply regrets.

It specifically names medical professionals Lisa Kristine Taylor, Winnie Mao Yiu Tong, Susanne Watson, and Mirna Escalante. Several of these individuals are similarly named in the lawsuits of detransitioners Chloe Cole and Layla Jane, also represented by the Center for American Liberty.

“This case is about a team of doctors,” the lawsuit begins, “who decided to perform a damaging, imitation sex-change experiment on Kayla, then a twelve-year-old vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health comorbidities, who needed care, attention, and psychotherapy, not cross-sex hormones and mutilating surgery.”

I like this one because it’s going after a well health care provider, and would send a message to other smaller health care providers about what is and is not the proper function of health care providers. Interesting to note that all of the doctors named (Lisa Kristine Taylor, Winnie Mao Yiu Tong, Susanne Watson, and Mirna Escalante) are women, who, according to polls, tend to be more liberal on social issues than men. Who knew that “don’t judge” would turn out to mean “make money off of being evil to confused, helpless victims”?

Another one from the New York Post:

Camille Kiefel, 32, had her healthy breasts removed in 2020 to align with her nonbinary gender identity. She says her doctors approved the surgery after two Zoom meetings, breezing past a whole host of mental health issues.

Now that Camille is in a better place mentally, she realizes her surgery was a mistake. So, two and a half years later, she’s suing her social worker, therapist, and the gender clinics they work for — Brave Space Oregon and Quest Center for Integrative Health — seeking up to $850,000 in damages.

[…]the idea that she might not actually be a woman didn’t occur to Camille until she enrolled at Portland State University, where she minored in gender studies and was introduced to alternative views about sex and gender.

By the time she reached her mid-20s, she embraced a nonbinary label and used she/they pronouns. All the while, she was struggling with a slew of mental-health issues, including anxiety disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, major depressive disorder and ADHD.

In the depths of the pandemic in 2020, Camille, then 30, was still struggling and thought gender-neutral top surgery could ease her mental-health issues. “I was so dysfunctional, and I just wanted something that was going to help me,” she recalled. “I thought I would be happier.”

When will this preying on children by the secular left end? It will end when we clean out their bank accounts. When there is no God, then there is no objective morality. When there is no objective morality, then all that’s left is pursuing pleasure. And that usually means obtaining quick money, to fund the pursuit of pleasure. Take away the money, and the secular leftists will stop.

5 thoughts on “Another victim of gender ideology sues the “don’t judge” predators”

  1. We are right to exert extra effort to defend children from the evils of transgenderism, but we must not be laissez faire when it comes to transgenderism for adults. Otherwise, we undercut our argument against transgenderism for children. As soon as you capitulate to transgenderism for adults, you’ve given aid and comfort to the other side, for they will simply consider you cruel for denying to children the “relief” you’re willing to grant adults. Transgenderism is an unwinnable war against reality. The sooner everyone of every age is delivered from the very idea, the better.

    Transgenderism Is a Lie

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  2. As someone who has had double mastectomy for cause (cancer), eight months out, I’m not at 100% recovery. I seriously doubt that anyone is talking about the long drawn out recovery, the drains, the serious amount of pain associated with the surgery, the ongoing nerve pain, the activity limitations, the muscle weakness in your shoulders, etc. That’s before you get to the “trying to make yourself into someone you aren’t and can’t be is just immoral, illogical, unscientific, and just plain stupid”. [I’m currently classified as a very low risk of any recurrence and at 6 month follow ups with oncology.]

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    1. Oh I’m sorry you had to go through that! But happy that you are low risk for re-occurence.

      It is strange that people are led into something that has such painful and expensive ongoing costs!

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