Medical Corruption and Malfeasance
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The far-left Economist ran a surprisingly sane story yesterday under the deceptive, passive-voice headline, “America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued.” It should have read, “former child patient sues America’s best-known gender doctor.” Hyphenated doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy is the Medical Director of the Center for Transyouth at Los Angeles Children’s Hospital. She is also the president-elect of the United States Association for Transgender Health. Now, along with two other so-called “doctors,” Johanna is staring at a serious lawsuit from her former child patient.
The Economist called Johanna “among the most celebrated youth gender medicine clinicians in the world.” Celebrated is one way of putting it. She’s scooped up tens of millions in grants from the National Institutes of Health. The dashed doctor also coined the ugly quote that you’ve probably seen circulating online: “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them.”
Johanna thinks she’s a pioneer. Current transgender guidelines strongly “suggest the importance of conducting a careful, in-depth assessment prior to starting a young person on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.” But the Economist explained that “Johanna has emerged as a critic of what she views as undue and unnecessary ‘gatekeeping.’”
And that trademark, the lack of ‘gatekeeping,’ making sure her patients are actually suffering from gender dysphoria before prescribing life-changing procedures, is exactly what Dr. Olson-Kennedy is now being sued for. You might recall Johanna from this story back in October:
Johanna was the lead researcher on a fabulously expensive, government-funded study (she got about $10 million dollars). But it didn’t turn out like she’d hoped. When her best efforts to wring a positive result from her study of kids on puberty drugs failed, she buried her own study.
Refusing to publish unfavorable results —after taking public money!— is the worst kind of academic abuse and widely considered unethical.
In one widely-circulated, secretly recorded presentation, Dr. Dash told other doctors that puberty blockers are as reversible as a haircut, toys, clothing style, a new name, and pronouns. She also said, “some surgeries are partially reversible,” presumably referring to her insane notion that “going and getting” breast augmentation “reverses” a double mastectomy.
Accepting for purposes of argument that puberty blockers and mastectomies are reversible (they aren’t), Johanna’s moronic argument still fails. Any child who transitions —involving their extended family, school, church, and social groups, and makes profound, life-altering decisions to undertake painful procedures rife with side effects ranging from inconvenient to deadly— that child faces inconceivable levels of psychological pressure to stay the course.
How is that “as reversible as a haircut?”
It is unimaginable how much strength of will and personality would be required for a hormone-addled child, who put herself, her parents, her family, and her friends through the pain and suffering of the first gender change, to destransition. After all that, who is possibly courageous enough to recognize her mistake and change back? That is why detransitioners usually don’t desist till their 20’s — after they’ve escaped their parent’s baleful influence.
Johanna is married to Aydin, a female-to-male transgender, licensed social worker, and trans activist.
I’m going to respectfully, and delicately, suggest Johanna probably suffers from her own mental health challenges.
Dr. Olson-Kennedy will never be accused of being an intellectual superstar. Listening to one of Dr. Olson’s lectures, one is most reminded of an over-excited woman in a bar after her third Cosmopolitan. Yet she is considered one of the “elite,” a trans “thought leader.” She somehow graduated from medical school, wrung millions in grants out of the U.S. government, became a large-hospital medical director, yet argues with the strength of a tipsy drunk.
CLIP: Johanna Olson-Kennedy tries to make some kind of argument (1:00).
The lawsuit’s plaintiff, Clementine Breen, 20, first saw Dr. Olson-Kennedy when she was 12. After a short, 30-minute intake, Dr. Olson-Kennedy took Clementine’s parents aside and privately, off the record, informed them the poor girl was suicidal, and the only thing that could save her life was to immediately begin aggressively transitioning. A year of testosterone later, Dr. Olson-Kennedy referred Clementine for her irreversible double mastectomy.
In her lawsuit, Clementine says she was not suicidal. Indeed, there is nothing in her voluminous medical record that even hints the girl ever considered taking her own life. To the contrary, she was often described as happy, “smiling,” and outgoing. In short, Dr. Olson-Kennedy lied —the worst, most despicable kind of lie— to Clem’s parents to terrify them into medically savaging their daughter’s healthy body.
Clem stopped taking testosterone about a year ago and began detransitioning in March. She now says she is much happier, even with the permanent side-effects of her unneeded treatments. This week she sued Dr. Olson-Kennedy and the surgeon who performed the double mastectomy, along with the gender therapist who rubber-stamped Dr. Dash’s recommendations, and twenty as-yet-unnamed “Doe Defendants” who conspired with the doctors to defraud Clementine.
I’ve described but the barest minimum of Clementine’s horrific ordeal. Read her complaint for more of the ghastly detail: Link to lawsuit against Olson-Kennedy and her co-conspirators.
The threat to the trans establishment is not the potential for a large money judgment. Presumably, Children’s Hospital would cover it. More threatening is the potential discovery. As stone-dumb and mixed-up as she is, Dr. Olson-Kennedy is somehow a cornerstone of the transgender high-rise. Discredit her, and the whole horrific edifice might soon topple over.
The lawsuit’s timing is remarkably prescient. It appeared both in court and in the media the same week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over Tennessee’s ban on the very same medical procedures Dr. Olson-Kennedy prescribed for Clementine. The Economist’s tone was subtly sympathetic to Clementine.
Clementine and her parents gave the Economist a long interview and tons of documents to review. Dr. Dash and Children’s Hospital refused to comment. So.
An unstoppable momentum is building behind the locomotive of sanity, which is hurtling down the tracks toward a final endpoint of our long national trans nightmare. It can’t come soon enough.
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Last week, the Daily Mail ran an encouraging story headlined “NHS trust that spread 'misinformation' with claim trans women could breastfeed as well as new mothers makes U-turn under pressure.” It’s only ‘misinformation’ when you do it.
It all started in February with this absurd headline (New York Post):
Mammary glands produce human breast milk. (Full disclosure: I am pro-mammary.) While both sexes are born with mammary glands and milk ducts, males’ ducts and glands never develop. On the other hand, females’ glands mature during puberty, pregnancy, and lactation. Certain problems like hormone imbalances, medication side effects, or rare cancers can cause men to produce a watery kind of pseudo-milk, which is diagnosed as galactorrhea.
Probably during a hallucinogenic episode, some crazy pro-trans doctor dreamed up the nauseating idea of medically causing hormone imbalances in cross-dressing men, thereby inducing galactorrhea, to help extend the dysphoric mens’ fantasies of being women by including a reasonable facsimile of breast feeding.
They weren’t brave enough to call it “breast feeding” though. They call it “chest feeding,” since men don’t have proper breasts, even fat men. Chest feeding is not creepy, not at all, and hearing it definitely doesn’t make some people feel like they are trapped in a horror movie, no. Well, maybe a little.
The main point is that nobody serious has ever studied how galactorrheac milk affects newborns, because nobody was ever dumb enough to think that was a good idea before about ten minutes ago.
Anyway, in February, the Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, a part of Britain’s glacial socialized medical system, excreted an awful letter guiding doctors on how to medically induce galactorrhea, so that cross-dressing men (“trans women”) can torture infants. The letter claimed, without evidence, that galactorrheac milk induced through undeveloped mammary glands and barely-existent milk ducts was “just as good” as the real thing, and claimed there were “no observable side effects.”
Infants, after all, can’t complain, now can they?
Outrage ensued. It took half a year, but last week the NHS finally “withdrew” the letter under fierce pressure from childrens’ rights activists. One is Emma Thomas, the founder of Children of Transitioners, a group that supports people whose parents change gender, and who complained about the initial NHS ‘chest feeding’ guidance. Emma correctly noted, “We have no idea how many CoT babies worldwide have been harmed as a result of this.”
Pray for Britain, which is struggling to hold onto its collective sanity right now. But at least they’ve weeded cross-dressing chest feeding out of their government-funded healthcare system. Progress.
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Although it has become apparent that Mangione was neither a personal victim of Thompson nor of the U.S. health-care system (his family has more money than God), it has led to a chorus of leftist leaders throwing up their hands and saying, “See, this is what happens when you have private insurers in charge.”
What they fail to recognize is that if the government ran health care, which is what they want, the government would be deciding who gets access to care. As much as I detest politicians, I would never advocate shooting one of them.
Leaders such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. are playing a dangerous game. Warren claimed Thompson’s murder should serve as a warning “to everyone in the health-care system” that “people can be pushed only so far.” She later attempted to walk back the comments, telling Politico, “Violence is never the answer.”
Ocasio-Cortez made an even more ridiculous statement, claiming that denying health insurance claims could be perceived as an act of violence.
By making comments that attempt to justify violence while claiming they don’t advocate it, Warren and Ocasio-Cortez are employing the rhetorical standards of kindergartners. In the real world, “He started it,” or “She is a booger,” are not acceptable arguments. I don’t think representatives of the American people should be allowed to use this infantile level of reasoning without being called on it.
Their comments also fail to recognize that in countries where the government runs health care, people are routinely denied treatment.
In April 2024, a group of women painted their bodies pink and stood outside the United Kingdom’s Houses of Parliament. They were protesting that the government-run health service was refusing to cover the cost of Enhertu. That drug could give terminally ill patients with a subtype of incurable breast cancer an additional six months of life. The 31 protestors represented the 31 women across the U.K. who die from advanced breast cancer every day.
A 2024 study by the Fraser Institute found that Canadians wait an average of 30 weeks for treatment. In Europe, where government-run healthcare is the norm, there are huge inequities among the citizens of different countries in when they can access new cancer treatments. In other words, substituting one set of bureaucrats for another does not mean everyone gets what he needs.
thefederalist.com
What they fail to recognize is that if the government ran health care, which is what they want, the government would be deciding who gets access to care. As much as I detest politicians, I would never advocate shooting one of them.
Leaders such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. are playing a dangerous game. Warren claimed Thompson’s murder should serve as a warning “to everyone in the health-care system” that “people can be pushed only so far.” She later attempted to walk back the comments, telling Politico, “Violence is never the answer.”
Ocasio-Cortez made an even more ridiculous statement, claiming that denying health insurance claims could be perceived as an act of violence.
By making comments that attempt to justify violence while claiming they don’t advocate it, Warren and Ocasio-Cortez are employing the rhetorical standards of kindergartners. In the real world, “He started it,” or “She is a booger,” are not acceptable arguments. I don’t think representatives of the American people should be allowed to use this infantile level of reasoning without being called on it.
Their comments also fail to recognize that in countries where the government runs health care, people are routinely denied treatment.
In April 2024, a group of women painted their bodies pink and stood outside the United Kingdom’s Houses of Parliament. They were protesting that the government-run health service was refusing to cover the cost of Enhertu. That drug could give terminally ill patients with a subtype of incurable breast cancer an additional six months of life. The 31 protestors represented the 31 women across the U.K. who die from advanced breast cancer every day.
A 2024 study by the Fraser Institute found that Canadians wait an average of 30 weeks for treatment. In Europe, where government-run healthcare is the norm, there are huge inequities among the citizens of different countries in when they can access new cancer treatments. In other words, substituting one set of bureaucrats for another does not mean everyone gets what he needs.
No, Socialized Medicine Wouldn’t Have Saved Health CEO
Leftists such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are playing a dangerous game in health CEO rhetoric.
thefederalist.com