Detransitioner suing doctor for a mastectomy at just 14 years old

December 09, 2024

Prominent doctor accused of pushing pre-teen into puberty blockers, mastectomy sued for medical negligence

Twenty-year-old detransitioner Clementine Breen is suing Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy for rushing her into radical, irreversible affirmation treatments from the age of only 12 years old.

“People are just brushing exactly what happened to me off as something that doesn’t happen,” she said.

Olson-Kennedy – the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles – came under fire in October after she admitted she refused to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers didn’t improve the mental health of kids.

Breen’s suit claims Olson-Kennedy’s clinic put her on puberty blockers when she was just 12, started her on hormone therapy at 13 and performed a double mastectomy on her at 14, the outlet reported, citing the suit and an interview with Breen.

And at one point when Breen’s parents told Olson-Kennedy they were concerned about putting their child on testosterone treatment, the doctor said Breen was suicidal, despite the fact that the pre-teen hadn’t had suicidal thoughts or ever expressed having them.

Still, Olson-Kennedy allegedly told them “if they did not agree to cross-sex hormone therapy, Clemetine would commit suicide,” the court papers allege.

The doctor’s notes didn’t say anything about these supposed suicidal thoughts before the breast surgery and, in fact, her notes for the testosterone treatment described Breen’s mental state as “Alert … no acute distress… cooperative, smiling,” the outlet reported.

Breen had displayed no signs of gender incongruence as a child. A guidance counsellor at her school approached her and suggested she may be lesbian or trans. 

 

That set off a terrible set of events leaving Clementine Breen permanently harmed.

“I wasn’t really sure about my identity at all,” she told the outlet, noting she now believes she had unresolved trauma from violence at the hands of her autistic brother and sexual abuse from someone outside the family at age 6.

Despite Breen’s uncertainty about her identity, the counsellor called her parents notifying them their daughter was transgender, prompting the parents to take her to Olson-Kennedy’s clinic by December 2016.

Breen was not taken to a psychologist, nor was she evaluated for mental health issues at the time. 

She has since reported her mental health dramatically declined after the affirmation treatments began, even cutting herself to see if she “had blood.”

Around the world, countries are beginning to wind back or ban affirmation treatments such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries due to the catastrophic harm they cause. 

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy continues to promote medical transitioning to underage children and recently mocked to an audience that some people get SUPER worked up about the fact that these procedures permanently sterilize children.

Australia is yet to even have an inquiry into these harmful practices despite the mounting evidence that is leaving children worse off than ever before.