Detransitioned Teen Girl Sues Kaiser Permanente Over Gender Transition Gone Wrong

A Kaiser Permanente hospital in Anaheim, Calif., on March 24, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

A detransitioned teen is suing Kaiser Permanente hospital because doctors removed her breasts during her transgender procedure.

Layla Jane is an 18-year-old woman who began to identify as transgender at age 11. Jane, at the time, wanted to transition to a male. Initially, doctors at Kaiser denied her any transition hormones, saying she could take them after turning 16. However, doctors changed their minds, approved her request, and performed a double mastectomy when she was 13.

Jane wrote on Twitter, “Mind boggling to me that a doctor signed off on a double mastectomy for me before I took a sex ed course. I barely started 8th grade, I was 13.”

Chloe Cole participates in a demonstration in Anaheim, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2022. Brad Jones/The Epoch Times

In the letter of intent to sue (pdf), her attorneys at LiMandri and Jonna LLP accused the doctors of approving the breast-removal surgery “without performing an adequate evaluation and treatment of Layla’s extensive mental health co-morbidities.”

According to the letter, Jane suffers from anxiety, depression, pubertal struggles, body dysmorphia, and serious self-image concerns.

“These doctors also pushed Layla and her parents down this transition path engaging in intentional, malicious, and oppressive concealment of important information and false representations,” the letter states.

The lawsuit demands unspecified amounts of pay for damages related to her health issues during her transition period from ages 12 to 17. The case listed Jane as suffering from permanent, irreversible mutilation, an induced state of endocrine disease, an increased risk of being infertile, and the fact that she would never be able to breastfeed a child.

During an appearance on Fox News with her attorney, Harmeet Dhillon, Jane said, “I don’t think I’m better off for the experience, and I think transition just completely added fuel to the fire that was my pre-existing conditions.”

In a statement to DailyMail, Kaiser said that its doctors “practice compassionate, evidence-based medicine founded on sound research and best medical practices.”

“When adolescent patients, with parental support, seek gender-affirming care, the patient’s care team carefully evaluates their treatment options,” Kaiser spokesman Marc Brown said. “The care decisions always rest with the patient and their parents, and, in every case, we respect the patients and their families’ informed decisions about their personal health.”

The Epoch Times reached out to Kaiser for comment.

Chloe Cole, 18, is another young woman who detransitioned and filed a lawsuit against the hospital giant.

She was prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and had her breasts removed when she was 15. She says she regrets getting the procedures done.

“The adults who were supposed to take care of and guide me as a child failed to do so, and they will take responsibility for it,” Cole told The Epoch Times on Nov. 11. “My parents were sold a lie just like I was.”

Cole’s parents supported their daughter during a demonstration in Anaheim, California, last Fall.

Cole recently expressed her frustration and continued pain after her procedures.

“At this point, I’m far from whole. I’m far from healed. I’m still processing and dealing with what I went through,” Cole told Fox News Digital in an interview.

“I’ve lost all my trust in my health care provider and possibly even health care,” she said. “It’s not loving to lie to a child. It is not loving to disrupt a child’s natural, healthy development or to encourage them to do so,” she said.

Cole reported that the double mastectomy procedure causes fluid to leak.

“They use skin grafts as part of it. Two years after the surgery, I thought the healing was going fairly well – save for the grafts being slightly dry on the surface. But they started to leak fluid, and I’ve had to start wearing bandages over them again,” Cole said during the Fox News interview.

Last summer Cole testified on California’s State Senate Judiciary Committee against a bill that would make the state a “sanctuary” for gender surgeries.

“I’m afraid that my generation and the generation, the generations following mine, are going to be led to led astray down the same path that I was on. It is not loving to lie to a child. It is not loving to disrupt a child’s healthy natural development. Or to encourage them to do so,” she said during an interview. “I stayed quiet about it for a little while ….  But at the same time, I was also speaking to other people who … regretted their transactions and people who … were harmed medically.”

Cole continued, “And seeing how these people were suffering, how a lot of them had all the same struggles that I did – and some… even worse off–I realized that this is this experience is a lot more common than previously thought. And not everybody in the situation feels that they’re able to speak up. And that’s a large part of what motivates me to speak out.”