Case 4 Banning Minors' Trans Treatments

Given how fast gender ideology has taken hold in an environment of political, legal & medical conformity, Clementine Breen’s trans-double mastectomy lawsuit over regretful surgery at age 14 might not be the last.

So opined the WSJ’s editors as the US Supreme Court now weighs US v Skrmetti & whether Tennessee may ban transgender treatments for minors. With that potentially landmark decision to be made in mind, the editors suggest the Justices first read “a medical negligence lawsuit that was filed in California last week, a day after the Justices’ oral arguments.” That’s because “Clementine Breen, now a 20-year-old UCLA student, alleges she was ‘fast-tracked to puberty blockers at age 12, male hormones at 13 & a double mastectomy at 14.” The lawsuit reads like a horror novel, in which child & parents were “guided” (or “misguided”) about all the drugs & surgical butchery they were “recommending.” There’s of course a dispute over whether any such advice was accompanied by “misrepresentations” about the ability to reverse the trans “treatments” once started. Yet can someone tell us how a double mastectomy can in any universe be reversed?

Ms. Breen’s lawsuit is against her various medical advisors & their institutions in state court, all of whom boast how “high quality” their services always are & how they even are based on “guidelines from professional organizations” like the American Academy of Pediatrics. The mastectomy doc insists, for instance, “Our robust processes & protocols are designed to ensure that patients navigating our services fully understand the implications of the gender-affirming procedures they may choose to undergo.” That’s a great commercial, but the BS word salad behind them are exactly why the Supremes should uphold Tennessee’s ban on transgender treatments for minors. BTW: The UK last week permanently banned the use of puberty-blocking hormones for most people under the age of 18. The US, not just Tennessee, should too.

Davd Soul