A controversial doctor and transgender rights activist allegedly transformed a preteen woman, lied about her suicidal thoughts and gave her testosterone treatments that could make her infertile, according to a lawsuit. .
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.
“People just ignore what happened to me as something that doesn’t happen,” she says.
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 alleges that Olson Kennedy’s clinic put her on puberty blockers when she was 12, started hormone therapy at 13 and performed a double mastectomy at 14. The newspaper reported, citing the lawsuit and an interview with Breen.
And at one point, when Breen’s parents told Olson-Kennedy they were worried about their child undergoing testosterone treatment, she said Breen was either suicidal or had suicidal thoughts. Doctors said Breen was suicidal, even though he had never expressed it.
Still, court documents allege Olson-Kennedy told her that Clementine would commit suicide if she did not agree to cross-sex hormone therapy.
The doctor’s notes say nothing about these purported suicidal thoughts before the breast surgery, and in fact, her notes regarding the testosterone treatment state that Ms. Breen’s mental state was “alert…acute.” “He is not in any pain…He is cooperative and smiling,” the newspaper reported.
In a letter to the pro-mastectomy surgeon, the doctor allegedly falsely claimed that Breen had “supported male gender identity since childhood.” But that claim was belied by Olson-Kennedy’s own notes, which showed Breen only began having questions about his identity a few months ago, the report said.
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.
Breen said she first spoke to her school’s career guidance counselor in 2016, when she was 12 years old, and told her 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.
Doctor’s records show that Ms. Breen had not seen a psychologist about her feelings, which she had expressed just three months earlier, and that Ms. Olson-Kennedy said at the time that Ms. Breen “met the criteria.” It turns out that despite his claims, he did not even conduct a mental health evaluation himself. “This is the beginning of puberty blockers,” the media reported.
But that didn’t stop doctors from immediately putting Breen on the path to gender reassignment, the lawsuit alleges.
Three months after her first appointment, Breen had a puberty blocker implant placed in her arm, less than a year later she started testosterone treatment, and by May 2019, she had a double mastectomy. Ta.
And Breen told the media that while the treatment initially made her feel temporarily better, her mental state ultimately deteriorated.
During this time, no one questioned whether this transition was helping or hurting her, even though there were signs that Breen’s situation was going downhill, according to her medical records. It has been shown that For example, one doctor noted in September 2020 that she “began compulsive mutilation to confirm his will.” There’s blood on it. ”
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post on Friday afternoon.
The hospital told The Economist that it does not comment on pending litigation or about patients and their treatment.
A lawyer for Breen’s former therapist told the outlet that notes about her treatment were lost in water damage and that the lawyer who performed the surgery declined to comment to the outlet.
