The lawsuits against the enablers of the trans mutilation fad can’t come soon enough. Too often, monsters with credentials and stethoscopes have been allowed to slither back into the shadows, unpunished. From the frontal lobotomy craze to the cruel experiments of the Behaviourists. Some monsters, like New Zealand psychologist John Money, are still lionised for helping found ideologies that still stain the world.
Money coined the terms “gender role” and “gender identity”. Despite being exposed as a monstrous sexual pervert who blighted the lives of children, Money is still celebrated with the John Money Fellowship from the Kinsey Institute (appropriately enough, I guess). But it’s the craze for chemically and surgically mutilating children and young adults which is his real “legacy”.
Money died before the lawsuits could come for him, but the lawsuits are coming for his legacy.
A detransitioned Ontario woman who was prescribed testosterone and underwent both a bilateral mastectomy and a hysterectomy during a mental health crisis in which she believed herself to be a man is suing the healthcare providers who allegedly facilitated her medical transition.
The transgender lobby would have us believe that “transitioning” is an entirely benign process, if not “reversible”. The opposite is horrifically true.
Michelle Zacchigna, 34, of Orillia has filed legal action against a total of eight doctors and mental health professionals who treated her during the years that she identified as transgender. Zacchigna alleges that each failed to address her complex mental health needs and instead allowed her to self-diagnose as transgender and undergo irreversible procedures that she now deeply regrets.
“I will live the rest of my life without breasts, with a deepened voice and male-pattern balding, and without the ability to get pregnant. Removing my completely healthy uterus is my greatest regret,” wrote Zacchigna.
Even a bartender who serves alcohol to someone obviously drunk is legally held to account. So why shouldn’t a medical practitioner who plies an obviously mentally-disturbed person with irreversible, life-altering surgery and drugs?
Zacchigna began pursuing medical transition in 2010 when the affirmative model of gender care was still in its infancy. Under this model, clinicians affirm a patient’s self-diagnosis of a transgender identity and provide medical interventions such as hormone therapy and surgeries rather than the traditional exploratory psychotherapy […]
In 2009, at the age of 21 and after years of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and a suicide attempt, she discovered the concept of gender identity on Tumblr, and became convinced that all her problems were because she was transgender.
If the Tumblrinas were bad enough, doctors were worse. Medicos who should have known better rushed to subject a deeply-troubled young woman to life-altering treatment.
In spring of 2010 [she] attended a support group at the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto called “Gender Journeys.”
Here she met Defendant Rupert Raj, who was one of the therapists running the group. Zacchigna says Raj announced to the group that he had connections with a general practitioner who was willing to take on two patients (one biologically male, and one biologically female) in order for their resident doctors to gain experience with transgender healthcare.
The claim states that Raj referred Zacchigna for male hormone therapy after just one appointment lasting under an hour.
Zacchigna also received a recommendation from her regular therapist, Defendant Nadine Lulu, whom she had started to see following her suicide attempt in 2008. In July 2010, the lawsuit states that Lulu concluded that Zacchigna was an “ideal candidate for hormone therapy” despite being aware of her long history of serious mental health issues.
Unlike most of the victims of the trans-medical complex today, Zacchigna was an adult, but she was far from fully able to make an informed decision. Yet, those who were supposed to be looking after her health, ruined her body instead.
Instead of what should have been the first recourse, a proper psychological assessment was not undertaken for a decade.
In 2015, 9 years after her suicide attempt and 8 years after coming out as transgender, Lulu finally referred Zacchigna for a full psychological and diagnostic assessment, and the resulting 25-page document revealed ADHD, tic disorder, borderline personality disorder, anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and traits of PTSD.
In fact, all of these co-morbidities are extremely common is so-called “gender dysphoria” cases.
Zacchigna alleges that all the defendants failed to address her serious mental health issues and developmental disabilities and instead only offered her irreversible medical interventions. She alleges that her desire to become transgender was never challenged, and alternative treatment options were never offered […]
Zacchigna says her advocacy is largely not done for herself because what happened to her cannot be undone, but rather it is in the hopes of preventing it from happening to someone else.
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Zacchigna is represented by Ontario lawyer Frances Shapiro Munn on a contingency basis. She is using crowdfunding to try and meet out-of-pocket expenses, such as obtaining medical records and hiring experts.
Hers is just one of several cases of legal action being brought by detransitioned people, in the US, UK and Australia.
