US: Detransitioner sues medics for malpractice

Medical professionals in Oregon who ignored mental health issues and approved a woman’s double mastectomy are being sued for malpractice.

Camille Kiefel is suing a social worker, a therapist and their respective clinics for affirming her “non-binary gender identity” and referring her for surgery after two brief online consultations.

She regrets that she was made to believe that harming her body would resolve her anxiety and depression, calling the surgery an “abhorrent misdiagnosis”.

Misleading

After a one-hour Zoom session with the social worker in May 2020 and a 40-minute video call with the mental health therapist in the July, Camille underwent a double mastectomy in August that same year.

Kiefel said she was misled by transgender ideology which she says is “treated as truth, but it’s just a theory”.

She added: “People who are struggling mentally and physically can get wrapped up in these ideologies because our current solutions aren’t working for people.”

Camille, who works to support detransitioners like herself, said: “I just don’t want what happened to me to happen to someone else.”

abhorrent misdiagnosis

‘Barbaric and unnatural’

Last month, Chloe Cole announced that she is suing the doctors who performed ‘gender-affirming’ surgery on her when she was only 15 for medical malpractice.

Cole said: “I want to hold the adults that put me in harm’s way accountable because what happened to me is horrible, but it also didn’t only happen to me, that’s the worst part.

“It’s happening to children all over the U.S., all over the West, and it’s spreading all over the world.”

Cole’s attorney said: “We intend to shut down these barbaric and unnatural practices”.

Tavistock

NHS England has set out proposals for an interim service to replace the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). The clinic will close next spring, after the independent Cass Review’s interim report found it was not a “safe or viable long-term option”.

The document states that clinicians should be aware that gender-confusion “may be a transient phase, particularly for pre-pubertal children, and that there will be a range of pathways to support these children and young people and a range of outcomes”.

Law firm Pogust Goodhead is seeking legal action against the Tavistock clinic for failing in its duty of care by pursuing an “unquestioning, affirmative approach” towards gender-confused children and prescribing experimental puberty-blocking drugs.

Despite similar concerns about the use of puberty-blocking drugs and ‘sex swap’ surgeries for vulnerable youngsters at the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow, Scottish officials have refused to take action. A report on Sandyford’s suitability is not due to be released until December 2023.