Former transgender kid tells medical mutilation horror story in California lawsuit
Kaiser Permanente performed "mutilating, mimicry sex change experiment" on Chloe Cole starting at age 13, causing "irreversible" damage - per complaint
Chloe Cole, an 18-year-old “former trans kid,” sued three Kaiser Permanente doctors, their medical group and hospital network in San Joaquin County today; alleging the puberty blockers & cross-sex hormones given her at 13, and removal of her breasts at 15, was medical malpractice.
Filed by Dhillon Law Group and LiMandri & Jonna LLP, in conjunction with The Center for American Liberty, the lawsuit alleges defendants perpetrated gross negligence, breach of the standard of care, fraudulent concealment, fraudulent misrepresentation, oppression, malice, coercion and failure to obtain informed consent.
Chloe is a biological female who, as a child, experienced “ongoing confusion regarding her gender.” After being exposed to online transgender influencers, “Chloe developed the erroneous idea that she was a boy.” Her parents sought help from the defendants.
Her civil complaint states:
Defendants immediately affirmed Chloe in her self-diagnosed gender dysphoria… They quickly put her on the puberty blockers and hormones “conveyer belt” of mimicry sex change… and [later] a radical double mastectomy of her healthy breasts… Defendants obscured and concealed important information… the significant possibility of desistence, detransition and regret… Multiple reliable studies consistently indicate that between 80% and 90% of minors that present with gender dysphoria accept their biological sex by late adolescence…
They also did not disclose the significant health risks associated with a biological female taking high doses of harmful male hormone drugs and off-label puberty blockers… Furthermore, Defendants falsely represented certain opposite facts, including that Chloe’s dysphoria would never resolve unless she chemically/surgically transitioned, and that she represented a high-risk of suicide unless she transitioned. These were materially false representations. Chloe’s parents were also asked: “Would you rather have a dead daughter, or a live son?”
As occurs in most gender dysphoria cases, Chloe’s dysphoria was not persistent and resolved when she was close to reaching adulthood. Consequently, she detransitioned and no longer identifies as a male. Unfortunately, as a result of the so-called transgender “treatment” that Defendants performed on Chloe, she now has deep physical and emotional wounds, severe regrets, and distrust of the medical system. Chloe has suffered physically, socially, neurologically, and psychologically… [she] needed love, care, attention, and regular weekly psychotherapy, not cross-sex hormones and mutilating surgery.
Charles LiMandri, one of Chloe’s attorneys, tells me she could not give proper consent because she was not properly informed, nor was she given the required psychological evaluation. I ask him if Chloe’s prior status as a minor is cause alone for medical malpractice. He says, “California has not made it illegal for doctors to medicalize and surgically ‘treat’ minors who claim to be transgender.”
Named as defendants in the lawsuit are San Rafael surgeon Hop Nguyen Le, M.D., Oakland pediatric endocrinologist Lisa Kristine Taylor, M.D., Oakland psychiatrist Susanne E. Watson, Ph.D., the Permanente Medical Group, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
In November 2021 WebMD Health News reported a “skirmish” between “leading experts on transgender medicine” and “trans activists.” Clinical psychologist Erica Anderson, Ph.D., and others criticized “the quality of assessments and care for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria.” Anderson predicted, “Due to some of the - I'll call it just 'sloppy' health care work - we're going to have more young adults who will regret having gone through this process." That prediction proved true for Chloe.
Last week Chloe was interviewed by Jan Jekielek, senior editor at The Epoch Times. She said, “There’s a lot of things I didn’t realize would happen until it happened to me. Even if those things were disclosed to me, I feel like I still wouldn’t have understood. We bar kids from being able to drink, [smoke], or rent a car. I’ve been traveling a lot and sometimes I can’t even get a hotel room because I’m under the age of 21. And yet I was able to get my breasts removed when I was 15…When you’re young you don’t realize the dangers of certain things.”
The Permanente Medical Group states on its website it is “the country’s largest medical group” and all eight Kaiser Permanente medical groups together “care for more than 12.6 million…members across the country.” Kaiser operates in portions of the east coast and west coast of the United States, plus Colorado and Hawaii.
When Chloe’s attorneys sent their Notice of Intent to Sue to Kaiser in November, The Daily Wire reported, “Kaiser’s website includes pseudoscientific guidance on ‘sex assigned at birth,’ the idea that doctors arbitrarily dictate a person’s biological sex rather than observe and record it, and ‘gender identity,’ a concept for which no scientific evidence exists.”
Kaiser is “motivated to place their profits above these vulnerable patients’ physical and mental health and well-being,” the letter stated. Recent financial reports show Kaiser’s profits fell during the pandemic. But in 2019 Kaiser made $5.2 billion in profits in the first six months and had $35 billion in reserves. “They pay 36 executives more than $1 million a year and the CEO gets $16 million, which is unheard of for a non-profit,” a union spokesperson said.
Kaiser Permanente did not provide comment or updated salaries & finances.
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