A 20-year-old woman who says she was forced to have a sex change at the age of 12 has taken action against a controversial transgender youth doctor.
Clementine Breen filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Los Angeles-based doctor Johanna Olsen-Kennedy on Thursday, alleging that she underwent irreversible treatment to become a man starting at the age of 12, potentially leaving her infertile.
The controversial lawsuit also alleges that Olsen-Kennedy – the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles – administered Breen’s care without conducting psychological tests to assess her mental health and the side effects of the drug. monitor treatment.
Breen’s lawsuit details her transition journey with Olsen-Kennedy in charge, claiming that her California clinic first put her on puberty blockers when she was just 12, before starting hormone therapy at 13.
At just 14 years old, Olsen-Kennedy’s Transyouth Clinic then performed a double mastectomy on the developing teen.
Breen’s parents are said to have intervened during their daughter’s transition and explained to the renowned doctor that they were concerned about their child receiving the testosterone treatment.
However, Olsen-Kennedy reassured concerned parents that their daughter was having suicidal thoughts, despite the fact that the pre-teen had never had or reported having suicidal thoughts.
Yet court papers allege that Olsen-Kennedy told them, “If they did not agree to cross-sex hormone therapy, Clementine would commit suicide.”
A 20-year-old has filed a lawsuit against a top but controversial transgender youth doctor, Johanna Olsen-Kennedy (pictured), claiming the doctor forced her to have a sex change at age 12, now she may be infertile
Clementine Breen (right), 20, filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Los Angeles-based doctor, Johanna Olsen-Kennedy, on Thursday, claiming she underwent irreversible treatment from the age of 12 to become a man.
To add further fuel to the fire, Breen’s doctor’s notes did not include any commentary about her alleged “suicidal thoughts” prior to her life-changing breast surgery.
However, the notes documented during Breen’s testosterone treatment describe her mental state as “Alert… no immediate distress… cooperative, smiling,’ the Economist reported.
Olsen-Kennedy also became entangled in her own web again when, in a letter to a surgeon approving 14-year-old Breen’s double mastectomy, she falsely claimed that the teen “has subscribed to the male gender since childhood.”
Yet this claim was proven completely false by Olsen-Kennedy’s own notes, which revealed that Breen only began having identity questions months before her first visit at age 12, the Economist reported.
Breen has since backed up doctor’s notes claiming she first expressed her “identity crisis” at age 12, recalling a 2016 experience in which she sought advice from a school counselor and told them she might be trans, is lesbian or bisexual.
“I wasn’t sure of my identity at all,” she told The Economist, noting that she now believes she suffered unresolved trauma from violence at the hands of her autistic brother and sexual abuse by someone outside her family at the age of six.
Additional doctor’s notes also revealed that at no point during her care did Breen see a psychologist about her new feelings.
The controversial lawsuit also alleges that Olsen-Kennedy – the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (pictured) – administered Breen’s care without conducting psychological tests to assess her mental health and monitor side effects of treatment.
Olsen-Kennedy elevated her controversial namesake earlier this year with her refusal to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study that found puberty blockers did not improve children’s mental health
The notes revealed that Olson-Kennedy herself did not conduct a mental health evaluation, despite claiming at the time that Breen met “the criteria for starting puberty blockers.”
Just three months after her first meeting with the transgender activist and doctor, Breen had a puberty-blocking implant in her arm and less than a year later she began testosterone treatment.
In May 2019, Breen had the double mastectomy as she said the treatments initially made her feel better but later caused her mental health to deteriorate.
Breen’s medical records from the period, now under legal scrutiny, show that she was not questioned about whether the transition had helped or harmed her, despite indications that things were going badly.
In 2020, another doctor noted that the teen had started “compulsively cutting to see if he has blood.”
Olsen-Kennedy cemented her controversial namesake earlier this year with her refusal to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study that found puberty blockers did not improve children’s mental health.