Will Litigation Put Transgender Youth Cult to Rest?

A lawsuit filed Thursday of last week by the victim of childhood transgender surgery against one of America’s foremost proponents of the procedure may finally make the butchery and drugging of American children for profit a thing of the past.

Clementine Breen, a 20-year-old California biological woman, filed a lawsuit naming several physicians, most notably Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy.

As the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Olson-Kennedy is a leading figure in the field of transgender procedures on minors.

In late October, Breen told a Canadian anti-gender-transition-treatment activist known as @BillboardChris that she initially sought help after she was sexually abused as a child. But medical professionals ignored that and concluded she was a trans kid.

They convinced Breen’s parents to consent to the treatment with an oft-used argument: “Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a live son?”

She was permanently harmed by the treatment she received before even becoming a teenager.

That treatment included puberty blockers at age 12, hormones (primarily testosterone) at 13, and a double mastectomy at 14. Breen continued taking testosterone as directed until age 17, when Olson-Kennedy recommended that she receive a hysterectomy.

At that point she stopped taking the hormones and began detransitioning.

It all sounds less like “care and treatment” and more like the horrific experiments Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi physician known as the “Angel of Death,” performed on prisoners.

“She was a vulnerable child suffering from untreated PTSD from traumatic events in her childhood,” Breen's lawyers said in a 29-page complaint filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court. “Consequently, she detransitioned and no longer identifies as a male. But the damage has been done, and it is profound.”

The lawsuit was filed one day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti on the issue of whether Tennessee’s ban on transgender treatments for minors violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

While such treatments for children are escalating in the United States, European countries are now taking a more conservative approach.

Even countries long thought to be progressive like Norway and Sweden are rethinking the issue of “gender-affirming care” for minor children — as they should.

Transgender surgeries especially are rarely performed on minor children in Europe.

Why, then, are these procedures so popular in the United States? The answer is money.

Transgender surgery is a lucrative business. CNN reported in 2015 that procedures could cost more than $100,000. A snip here, a tuck there, and the surgeon is suddenly in the gravy.

And in the nearly 10 years since then, the cost could have only gone up.

Then there are the drugs — puberty blockers for adolescents, followed by a lifetime of testosterone for biological females, and estrogen for biological males.

Breen’s story is not unlike that of detransition activist Chloe Cole, who also went through puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and a double mastectomy as a child. Then she realized it was all nuts, detransitioned, and is now suing her own “caregivers.”

Cole also commented on Breen’s lawsuit.

“The face of gender mutilation,” she said on X, referring to a photo of Breen’s surgeon.

“Johanna Olson-Kennedy is being sued by multiple detransitioners right now. She will pay for her greed, for the destruction of so many lives, and for the body parts that have been taken from so many children.”

Cole concluded, “I cannot wait.”

America is starting to wake up — at least at the state level. So far 26 states have banned — at least to some extent — gender-affirming care for minor children.

Clementine Breen’s lawsuit naming one of America’s most prominent pediatric gender-affirming surgeons will also help, as will similar lawsuits like Chloe Cole’s.

Until everyone else catches up, physicians and surgeons would do well to review the Hippocratic Oath they took upon entering their profession: “First, do no harm.”