A lawsuit in California is drawing even more attention to the ongoing social contagion of transgender ideology. The story of Layla Jane is, sadly, an all too familiar horror show that played out when she was at her most vulnerable. Jane was just eleven years old and already exhibiting symptoms of other mental and emotional challenges when she was somehow convinced that she was a boy “in the wrong body.” Only two years later, at the age of 13, she had been pushed fully into “transition” and wound up having a mastectomy. Now she is 18 and she is suing all of the doctors involved, as well as the hospital, for ruining her body and failing to provide her with the mental health care she clearly required. (The Epoch Times)

A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy.

The defendants carried out “ideological and profit driven medical abuse” when they prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy, Charles Limandri, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, Layla Jane, said in a statement.

Jane, now 18, was influenced by people online when she was just 11 and told her parents that she was a boy, prompting them to ask for guidance from doctors.

The details of Layla Jane’s experience are truly horrifying. Upon learning of their daughter’s gender confusion, Jane’s parents took her to three different doctors, including Dr. Doreen Samelson (who is not named in the suit). All three of them told the family that they could not prescribe hormones or puberty blockers for Layla because of her young age and other emotional issues. They instead recommended counseling and therapy. But Layla was then taken to more trans-friendly doctors.

Layla was immediately prescribed hormones and puberty blockers after a single, 75-minute session with a psychiatrist (not a medical doctor) named Susanne Watson. One 30-minute appointment with a plastic surgeon named Dr. Winnie Tong resulted in approval for Layla to undergo a mastectomy. Only months later, at the age of 13, her breasts had been removed.

Now, at 18 years of age, Layla Jane is undergoing lengthy emotional and mental health counseling. This is precisely the sort of treatment she desperately needed but was never offered as a child. The defense will attempt to convince the court that she willingly agreed to the “treatment” and even requested it herself. But she was a child of eleven and her parents are not doctors. There were relying on the supposed expertise of the medical professionals they were directed to see.

How many more of these horror stories do we need to hear before the medical community and our progressive elected officials begin to wake up? We’re talking about the irreversible mutilation of children and experiments with risky drugs that were never approved for these purposes by the FDA. These procedures are being banned for underage patients all across Europe, but here in the United States, we have people that continue to double down. It needs to end.

Layla Jane’s body (along with much of her life) has been ruined. But she is brave enough to tell her story and potentially help others being lured onto this horrible path. And if we can’t manage to have the doctors who are engaging in these abusive practices thrown in jail, perhaps bankrupting a few of them will start to get the message across. I wish Ms. Jane the best on her journey along with a full and rapid recovery, as much as that’s possible.