Woman in transition, 18, sues Kaiser Permanente for forcing ‘her’ to undergo sex reassignment surgery

A young menopausal woman who is suing the medical professionals responsible for her transition claims the doctors spent just 75 minutes vetting her before embarking on the life-changing ordeal — when she was just 12 years old.

Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, filed the lawsuit last week in California’s San Joaquin County Superior Court, accusing multiple Bay Area professionals of rushing her treatment — while ignoring factors such as her poor mental health.

It specifically names doctors Lisa Kristine Taylor, Winnie Mao Yiu Tong, Susanne Watson and Mirna Escalante as defendants, for giving Lovdahl puberty blockers, testosterone and a double mastectomy in just a few months.

Rather than warning Lovdahl about the finality of the treatment — or advising her to explore her gender issues through psychotherapy — the providers automatically and falsely stated that the youngster was transgender, the lawsuit alleges.

Also named in the sensational lawsuit – which comes amid a growing chorus of “de-transitioning” youths expressing regret over their life choices – is the hospital that removed her breasts, and the healthcare provider who led the six-month process.

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“This case is about a team of doctors who decided to conduct a harmful sex reassignment imitation experiment [Lovdahl]then a vulnerable 12-year-old girl who struggled with complex mental illness,” the 35-page filing reads.

‘[Lovdahl] needed care, attention and psychotherapy,” it continues about the alleged mishandling of the situation by NorCal medical officials. “No sex hormones and mutilating operations.”

The lawsuit further explains how Lovdahl — who goes by the pseudonym Laya Jean — would transition last year at age 17 and eventually regret her and her doctors’ decision.

Forced to undergo psychotherapy sessions to reverse the mental damage done by the procedure, Lovdahl and her lawyers write that their prognosis was premature — and gave the then-impressionable young teen the “false belief” that she was transgender.

To reach that conclusion, the lawsuit argues, clinical psychologist Watson — who also serves as clinical director of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals’ “Transgender Clinic” at Oakland Medical Center — conducted a one-time, 75-minute transition evaluation.

During the sit-down, Watson allegedly revealed none of the lingering health risks associated with taking “off-label puberty blockers and high doses of potent male hormone drugs” — having determined that Lovedahl was transgender.

Taylor and Tong, an endocrinologist and plastic surgeon working under the umbrella of the Oakland hospital system, all agreed with their colleagues’ assessment, started her on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12, and performed the double mastectomy a few months later. out.

The trio, the lawsuit alleges, “immediately and negligently confirmed.” [Lovdahl’s] self-diagnosed transgenderism without adequate psychological evaluation’ and ‘not informed [Lovdahl] of the significantly increased suicide risk that would persist even after completing the transition.”

Sensationally, the lawsuit also states that after meeting Taylor, the three “forced” Lovdahl and her parents to undergo the treatment regimen – in part by warning the family that “it is better to have a living son than a dead daughter.” ‘. to the mental health issues that led them to the Oakland-based practice.

DailyMail.com has reached out to them for comment — as well as a fourth Kaiser doctor named in suit, pediatric endocrinologist Escalante, who referred the family to the trio in the first place.

Years after she underwent a double mastectomy at age 13, Lovdahl now says the procedure left her with “deep physical and emotional wounds and severe regrets.”

The lawsuit says that after the 75-minute meeting with psychologist Taylor, the three “forced” Lovdahl and her parents to undergo the treatment regimen by telling the family “it’s better to have a living son than a dead daughter.” ‘

As a child, Lovdahl suffered from a serious mental illness, which she says was overlooked by doctors when they urged her to become transgender.

Her lawsuit condemned the system that allowed her to have the invasive surgery at such a young age.

“There is no other field of medicine where doctors surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and deliberately induce a diseased condition of the pituitary gland simply based on the wishes of the young adolescent patient,” it said.

After transitioning, she says she began regular psychotherapy sessions to improve her mental health, “which is the care she should have received all along,” the lawsuit says.

“The vast majority of children with a gender difference, if medically treated in early adolescence, are at risk of regretting the decision after they are old enough to realize their losses,” Lovdahl added.

She said the ordeal left her with “deep physical and emotional wounds and severe regrets.”

She also claims that the hospital and doctors failed to give her and her parents proper “informed consent,” which would have led to therapy sessions, something she says was never offered.

In a statement, her lawyers criticized the proceedings as “an insane form of child abuse.”

“We believe these things are the best way to stop them, especially in liberal states like California, where reckless ideologues are pushing this radical agenda,” said attorney Charles Limandri.

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals has been contacted by DailyMail.com for comment.