An impressionable adolescent watched transgender celebrities online and chose to transition as well. Kayla Lovdahl approached doctors when she was thirteen years old, and they assisted her in undergoing a double mastectomy, which removed both of her breasts from her chest. After her breasts were removed from her body, Lovdahl had “deep physical and emotional wounds and severe regrets” for “going trans” while just following an online fad.
Lovdahl, now 18, alleges she endured the intrusive procedure and later regretted it completely. In addition to following influencers online, Lovdahl said that her physicians advised her to “entertain” gender reassignment surgery when she was just eleven years old.
Lovdahl has filed a lawsuit against the doctors who cut off her breasts. The plaintiffs in the action are Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and four doctors. The lawsuit alleges that doctors and hospital staff let Kayla’s emotions influence her treatment.
Lovdahl’s legal case against her previous doctors comes as an increasing number of young people seek to “de-transition” after undergoing surgery and hormone treatments to change their gender. Many of these “de-transitioning” teenagers and young people allege they have received death threats and other forms of intimidation from the transgender community because they no longer want to be the gender they have converted into.
Lovdahl faced years of mental health issues until she was “exposed to online transgender influencers” who urged her “erroneously” to believe that she was actually a boy and not a girl when she was just eleven years old.
Lovdahl’s parents were confused about their daughter’s decision but decided to support her anyway. When Lovdahl reached puberty at age twelve, she was already on puberty blockers to prevent her from developing into a young woman. She also started taking testosterone supplements to enhance her masculine energy. However, the lawsuit claims that Lovdahl never received a psychological evaluation before she began to transition genders under the supervision of her team of doctors.
Although Lovdahl’s parents were concerned about surgeries, the doctors allegedly told her caregivers, “It is better to have a live son than a dead daughter.”
Now, Lovdahl believes that the process that drove her to become a trans man is all just an “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse.”
Just six months later, Lovdahl underwent a double mastectomy and had both of her breasts removed. Last year, she de-transitioned and returned to life as a girl and severely regrets changing her body to resemble a boy’s.
The lawsuit claims, “There is no other area of medicine where doctors will surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and intentionally induce a diseased state of the pituitary gland misfunction based simply on the young adolescent patient’s wishes.”
Lovdahl added, “The vast majority of cross-gender identified children, if medically treated in early adolescence, risk regretting the decision after they are old enough to realize their losses.”
