A 20-year-old woman who says she was forced her into a sex change at age 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, claiming she was rushed into irreversible treatment to become male beginning at age 12, which may have left her infertile.
The contentious lawsuit also alleges Olsen-Kennedy – the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles – administered Breen’s care without performing psychological testing or monitoring her mental health and the side effects of the treatment.
Breen’s lawsuit details her transitional journey with Olsen-Kennedy at the head, claiming her California clinic first put her on puberty blockers when she was just 12, before starting her on 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 had allegedly intervened during their daughter’s transition, explaining to the renowned physician that they were concerned about putting their child on the testosterone treatment.
However, Olsen-Kennedy reassured the worried parents that their daughter was experiencing suicidal ideations, despite the fact that the pre-teen hadn’t ever had suicidal thoughts or expressed having them.
Still, 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, yet, controversial transgender youth doctor, Johanna Olsen-Kennedy (pictured), claiming the practitioner forced her into 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 was rushed into irreversible treatment to become male beginning at age 12
Adding more fuel to the fire, Breen’s doctor’s notes failed to include any commentary regarding her alleged ‘suicidal thoughts’ ahead of her life-altering breast surgery.
The notes documented during Breen’s testosterone treatment did however describe her mental state as ‘Alert … no acute distress… cooperative, smiling,’ the Economist reported.
Olsen-Kennedy was also caught in her own web again when, in a letter to a surgeon endorsing 14-year-old Breen’s double mastectomy, she falsely claimed the teen has ‘endorsed a male gender since childhood.’
Yet, this claim was proven wholly incorrect by Olsen-Kennedy’s own notes showing that Breen only began having identity questions months prior to her initial visit at 12-years-old, the Economist reported.
Breen has since backed the doctor’s notes claiming she first expressed her ‘identity crisis’ at 12, recalling an experience in 2016 where she sought advice from a school guidance counselor sharing with them that she might be trans, a lesbian or bisexual.
‘I wasn’t really sure about my identity at all,’ she told the Economist, noting she now believes she had unresolved trauma from violence at the hands of her autistic brother and sexual abuse from someone outside her family at age six.
Additional doctor’s notes also revealed that Breen had not seen a psychologist about her newfound feelings, at any point during her care.
The contentious lawsuit also alleges Olsen-Kennedy – the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles (pictured) – administered Breen’s care without performing psychological testing or monitoring her mental health and the side effects of the treatment
Olsen-Kennedy heightened her controversial namesake earlier this year with her refusal to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers did not improve the mental health of kids
The notes exposed how Olson-Kennedy didn’t perform a mental-health evaluation herself, despite claiming at the time that Breen met ‘the criteria for the commencement of puberty blockers.’
Just three months after her initial meeting with the transgender activist and medical practitioner, Breen received a puberty-blocker implant placed in her arm and less than a year later she began testosterone treatment.
By May 2019, Breen had undergone the double mastectomy as she said the treatments helped her feel better at first but later down the line caused her mental health to turn for the worse.
Breen’s medical records of the time period now under legal scrutiny demonstrate how she was not questioned her about whether the transition had helped, or harmed her despite indications that things were going sourly.
In 2020, another doctor noted the teen had started ‘compulsive cutting to see if he has blood.’
Olsen-Kennedy heightened her controversial namesake earlier this year with her refusal to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers did not improve the mental health of kids.
