Chloe Cole, a detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced the first official lawsuit in the U.S. against the hospital and affiliated medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor. The Center for American Li...
As someone with a chronic psychiatric condition in which the gold standard, evidence based treatment was pioneered in the 70s and 80s, I'm glad today's "professionals" didn't get a chance to determine the diagnostic criteria and treatment protocol. These poor people are obviously suffering greatly from something, but I really don't think the solution is anything near what has been hammered out over the past 10-15 years.
Imagine if we started putting people with body dysmorphia on diet pills and gave them liposuction, while obligating doctors by hospital policy to not tell such patients they weren't actually overweight. Oh wait, couldn't do that, that would be fat phobic!
Jokes aside, I want to know the backlash from the "trans-community" this person has gotten. They tend not to like it when people detransition.
So let me get this straight. You went to the hospital seeking treatment. They provided the treatment you wanted. Now you are suing. This case will get thrown out faster than a Randy Johnson fastball.
It affects vulnerable people in our communities who are being taken advantage of for profit with bunk "treatments". What decent human being wouldn't be outraged? Oh, of course, people in the very cult stumping for this quackery.
This should violate the Hippocratic oath. We don’t tell schizophrenics that the voices they’re hearing are real
My fear lately is that the best analog to trans affirming medical interventional is the lobotomy, circa 1940. For about 15 years it was considered the cure for all kinds of mental disorders, and then it was finally admitted that it was a massively over-drastic procedure that was almost never helpful or necessary.
One early critic of lobotomy said, according to Wikipedia: “The history of prefrontal lobotomy has been brief and stormy. Its course has been dotted with both violent opposition and with slavish, unquestioning acceptance.” I don’t know about you but that sounds familiar to me.
Like all those white people who took part in the BLM riots, eh? Police violence against black oriole “doesn’t have any effect” on them, in the way you’re implying “effect” should be defined here. But caring about other people is a basic life skill. You’ll pick up on it one day.
So let me get this straight. You went to the hospital seeking treatment. They provided the treatment you wanted. Now you are suing. This case will get thrown out faster than a Randy Johnson fastball.
How is cutting off this girl's perfectly healthy parts, giving her poisonous drugs to suppress her natural hormones, and giving her opposite-sex hormones, proper treatment?
Will she be suing her parents as well? Presumably all this didn't happen without their explicit approval.
This. Parents would have signed the surgical consent on their child’s behalf. They’re as culpable as anyone.
The lawsuit isn't just about surgical consent the parents gave for the double mastecomy Chloe Cole received, though.
Cole's lawsuit is about the entire course of treatment that was recommended and administered to her starting when she was 12 through age 17. This consisted of using GnRH analog drugs as "puberty blockers" for the off-label purpose of preventing Chloe from producing pituatory gland and gonadal hormones and stopping her normal adolescent development; putting her on exogenous Big Pharma testosterone at doses meant to give her the same T levels as teenage boys; and surgically removing both her healthy breasts at the earliest possible date, which turned out to be when she was just 15.
Cole's lawsuit says that the HCPs and HCFs who recommended and provided these treatments did not fully and honestly inform her or her parents about the nature, usual course and likely outcome of the sex and gender distress these treatments were supposed to remedy; about the alternative, less invasive treatment approaches that were available; or about the risks, downsides, experimental nature, irreversible effects and lack of proven efficacy of the extreme treatments they recommended and administered. Nor did they inform Cole or her parents that there is no good-quality, trustworthy evidence base for the treatment regimen they insisted was the best and only course of action that should be considered.
In fact, the lawsuit alleges that the HCPs and HCFs the Cole family turned to for help with 12-year-old Chloe's psychological distress and confusion all said that if Chloe were not subjected to the extreme treatment regimen they recommended to masculinize her body ASAP, then Chloe would inevitably kill herself long before reaching adulthood. The lawsuit claims that the HCPs guilt-tripped Chloe Cole's parents into giving consent on her behalf by telling them that the only choice before them was whether to have "a live (transgender) son or a dead daughter."
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