Two recent lawsuits filed against local medical clinics allege that medical professionals are in a rush to confuse young patients about their sexual identity when undergoing gender reassignment treatment or surgery. I threw away the traditional guardrails of practice.
Now, July R. Karlan has discovered that he was born a gay man. However, in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed Oct. 12 in federal court in Massachusetts, Karlan alleges that medical professionals at Boston’s Fenway Community Health Center misdiagnosed Karlan as transgender and caused irreversible injuries. He insisted that he would never be able to live the gay lifestyle he was meant to live because he recommended hormonal therapy. And she underwent surgery to become a woman.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff visited Fenway in 2013 and a man asked her about hormone therapy to help her live “full-time as a woman.”
The plaintiff claims that at the time he suffered from “internalized homophobia,” which prevented him from accepting homosexuality. Meanwhile, Fenway staff advised Kahlan to undergo hormone therapy, but he often overlooked the diagnosis, the lawsuit alleges.
“defendant de facto According to the complaint, they were unable to view all mental illnesses from a transgender perspective and make differential diagnoses, so they converted gay men into transgender people. ”
Karlan’s lawsuit does not state any medical malpractice claims, but rather is filed under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Karlan’s attorney, Mitra N. Forhar of San Francisco, argued that Section 1557 creates an implied private right of action by incorporating by reference other civil rights law enforcement mechanisms that authorize private causes of action. Her client’s case is based on the theory that
“The defendants behaved in an indifferent manner.” [my client’s] “Sexual orientation is a protected status,” says the civil rights lawyer. “That is the basis for filing a legal claim based on:” [the Affordable Care Act’s] Non-discrimination clause. ”
Ms. Folher said her clients have transitioned completely to women.
“My client is gay, and he told the defendants that he was gay and that his parents rejected his homosexuality,” Forhar said. “Nevertheless, the defendants made no attempt to investigate the impact of societal and parental rejection of homosexuality on his psyche and identity. Just because someone feels uncomfortable does not mean that the transition There is no profit to be made.”
The plaintiffs allege that Fenway medical professionals “deliberately waived” established, evidence-based, and generally accepted clinical guidelines when providing medical care to transgender people.
“In deciding to abandon evidence-based care, defendants relied solely on people in pain without medical knowledge and those who were happy with the transition, ignoring the experiences of those who regretted it. , thus attracting patients who “deliberately disregarded the safety risks to the same sex,” the plaintiffs’ complaint states. “Exclusive consideration of only positive results in medical research is known as ‘survivor bias,’ and the resulting conclusions are unreliable and erroneous.”
Physicians at Hasbro Children’s Hospital Lifestyle Medicine Group in Providence are facing a similar lawsuit filed Oct. 23 in Bristol Superior Court.
in Ayala v. American Academy of PediatricsPlaintiff Isabel M. Ayala said her father took her to Lifestyle Medical Group in 2016 for treatment of previously related depression and anxiety, and co-defendant Dr. Jason Lafferty He claims that Dr. Michel Forcier advised him to undergo testosterone therapy as a puberty blocker. Sexual assault.
according to AyalaLifestyle magazine’s Pediatric Gender Team recognized the teenage girl’s desire to move from what she considered a “weak and vulnerable 13-year-old girl” to a “socially susceptible 13-year-old girl” ( She gave too much credit (which she claims was partly a product of “social media influence”). She is a strong, confident and independent boy. ”
“During her treatment by Defendants at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, not one of her health care providers ever stepped back to reevaluate whether testosterone was improving Isabel’s health.” says the complaint. “Instead, even though her mother only agreed to a lower dose (and did so without the full information needed to give truly informed consent) ), they only increased her dose.” As the defendant increased the dose, not only did Isabel’s mental health spiral out of control, to the point where she attempted suicide, but her body Caused irreversible physical changes and permanent damage. ”
Ayala is now 20 years old and claims she is “desperate” to regain her healthy female body.
“The changes that testosterone has caused to her body are not a group of ideologues trying to promote their own agenda and promote social issues, but rather a group of ideologues trying to assess her mental health and provide the care she needs. “Constantly reminding her that she needed an unbiased medical professional to help her,” the complaint states. “Isabelle suffers from vaginal atrophy due to heavy use of testosterone. She takes care of excess facial and body hair. She suffers from compromised bone structure. She believes that her fertility is irreversible. She continues to have mental health issues and suffers from anxiety and depression, which is exacerbated by feelings of remorse.”
In addition to the medical malpractice claims, Ayala also alleges civil conspiracy involving Lifestyle Physicians and co-defendants, the American Academy of Pediatrics. The plaintiff places much of the blame for her injuries on gender reassignment guidelines issued by the AAP in 2018.
Defendant Dr. Lafferty is the lead author of AAP’s Gender-Affirming Care Policy Statement. Ayala said she is a victim of policies that promote “radical” approaches that are not supported by evidence.
“These individuals will enshrine their ideological beliefs as authoritative in an emerging field of pediatric medicine: the treatment of rapidly increasing numbers of transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents. “We saw an opportunity to develop new guidelines,” the complaint states.
Jordan Campbell, a resident of Campbell Miller Payne in Dallas, represents Ayala. Campbell said he expects a “wave” of similar lawsuits to be filed across the country.
“We’ve already filed four of these lawsuits and have more in the pipeline,” Campbell said.
Campbell said he has identified six additional lawsuits brought by other attorneys and firms, including four brought by his own firm.
According to Campbell, Ayala This is the only case in which AAP was named as a defendant.
“The central doctrine is that [the AAP’s] “The affirmative care model essentially puts the client, the patient, in charge of the treatment, and it’s a complete reversal of medical practice,” Campbell says.
Lifestyle Medical Group and Fenway Community Health Center declined to comment on the lawsuit against them. The American Academy of Pediatrics did not respond to a request for comment at the time of writing.
