It was only a matter of time before the lawsuits against medicos who put money and ideology ahead of children’s health began. Like Big Tobacco, they can lie, falsify evidence and hide incriminating data all they like: the truth will out in the end.
Especially when nearly everyone knew it was all bullshit all along.
Now, the Philip Morris-cum-Josef Mengele of child mutilation is facing her own Nuremberg.
Johanna Olson-Kennedy is among the most celebrated youth gender medicine clinicians in the world. She has been the Medical Director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the first high-profile American youth gender clinics and presently the largest, since 2012. A frequent expert witness in court cases who is often quoted in the media, Dr Olson-Kennedy also leads a $10m initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health to study youth gender medicine – by far the largest such project in America. In addition, she is the president-elect of the United States Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Olson-Kennedy is to ‘transgender’ child mutilation what Anthony Fauci is to Covid-19. She openly brags about prescribing ‘cross-sex hormones’ – powerful drugs which are likely to leave children permanently sterile, as well as unlikely to ever achieve full sexual satisfaction by orgasm – to children as young as 12, as well as referring barely pubescent girls of 13 for double mastectomies.
Hopefully, this monster is about to get at least a little of what’s coming to her.
Now, however, Dr Olson-Kennedy is being sued by a former patient, Clementine Breen […] and many of Ms Breen’s claims appear to be backed up by Dr Olson-Kennedy’s own patient notes, which Ms Breen and her legal team have shared with The Economist. The medical-negligence lawsuit was filed on December 5th in California.
Olson-Kennedy gave her the Mengele-style works: puberty blockers (i.e., chemical castration drugs) at 12, hormones at 13 and a double mastectomy at 14. Six years later, Breen is de-transitioning, but her body will be mutilated forever. She wants justice.
The lawsuit’s defendants are Dr Olson-Kennedy, the gender therapist to whom Dr Olson-Kennedy referred her, the surgeon who performed the double mastectomy and 20 as-yet-unnamed “Doe Individuals” who were agents, servants, and employees of their co-defendants. Ms Breen’s attorneys accuse them of medical negligence on a number of grounds, including an alleged lack of psychological assessment, poor management of Ms Breen’s mental health and a lack of concern about the effects of puberty blockers on Ms Breen’s bone health.
Why sue? One answer is that Ms Breen is seeking monetary damages. But she also cites “personal closure reasons” in an interview, as well as a desire to rebut the notion that rushed youth gender transitions are rare in America, a claim commonly made by some LGBT activists. “People are just brushing exactly what happened to me off as something that doesn’t happen,” she says.
While little is known about the practices of American youth gender clinics, Dutch-style assessment does not appear to be the norm. None of the 18 American youth gender clinics contacted by Reuters for an investigation published in 2022 described such a protocol. The share of Americans who regret their gender transitions, or who detransition, is unknown as well. Anecdotally there appears to be an uptick in the number of detransitioners seeking redress, says Jordan Campbell, one of Ms Breen’s lawyers. His firm, which focuses on detransitioners, has been approached by more than 100 people but has pursued litigation on behalf of less than 15 per cent, he estimated.
The ‘known unknowns’ include much of Olson-Kennedy’s own data – she has refused to publish the results of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children. What we do know is what the study found – no evidence that they improve patients’ mental health – and why Olson-Kennedy won’t publish it.
She knows perfectly well it will be used to rightfully destroy her lucrative trade in child-mutilation.
Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy told the New York Times that she believes the study would be “weaponized” by critics of transgender care for kids, and that the research could one day be used in court to argue “we shouldn’t use blockers.”
Which sounds like exactly the reason it must be published. Her argument is identical to the ClimateGate researchers who refused to release data on the astonishing grounds that it would be used to prove them wrong.
Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist and a transgender youth expert, told the Post she was “shocked” and “disturbed” about the decision to withhold publication of such vital research.
“We’re craving information about these medical treatments for gender-questioning youth. Dr Olson-Kennedy has the largest grant that’s ever been awarded in the US on the subject and is sitting on data that would be helpful to know,” she said.
She’s also sitting on the river of gold she’s pocketed in return for sterilising, mutilating and wrecking the lives of untold numbers of vulnerable children.
Last year, Dr Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a leading Finnish expert on pediatric gender medicine, said in a newspaper interview that “four out of five” gender-questioning children will eventually grow out of it and accept their bodies even without medical intervention.
But where’s the money in that?
