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A California woman is suing the hospital that removed her breasts when she
was 13, claiming her doctors pushed her into the procedure under the
'erroneous belief' she was transgender.

Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, says she underwent the invasive surgery after being urged to 'entertain' the plans by medical professionals when she was just 11-years-old.

According to a lawsuit filed by Lovdahl against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
and four doctors, it is claimed they 'handed Kayla the prescription pad,
and allowed her naïve, emotional, childish, rollercoaster of feelings to dictate the so-called 'treatment' that she would receive.'

The legal challenge comes amid a growing chorus of 'de-transitioning'
youths, many of whom claim they were subjected to death threats and intimidation after turning their backs on the 'cult-like' transgender community.

After years of battling mental health issues, Lovdahl claims she was
'exposed to online transgender influencers' who prompted her to
'erroneously' believe she was transgender when she was 11.

With her parents unsure how best to support her, the tween sought medical
help, rapidly sending her down a path of risky treatments.

By the age of 12, she was on puberty blockers and testosterone despite
never receiving a proper psychological evaluation, per the lawsuit.

Amid concerns over the potential surgeries, it is alleged that Lovdahl's physicians told her parents: 'It is better to have a live son than a dead daughter'.

Her entire transition evaluation lasted just 75-minutes, she claims, as
Lovdahl alleges the process that led her to surgery is 'ideological and profit-driven medical abuse'.

Within six months, Lovdahl underwent a double mastectomy, a decision she
now regrets after detransitioning a year ago.

Her lawsuit condemned the system that allowed her to undergo the invasive surgery at such a young age, saying: 'There is no other area of medicine
where doctors will surgically remove a perfectly healthy body part and intentionally induce a diseased state of the pituitary gland misfunction
based simply on the young adolescent patient's wishes.'

After detransitioning, she says she began regular psychotherapy sessions to help her mental health, 'which is the care she should have been receiving
all along', the lawsuit states.

'The vast majority of cross-gender identified children, if medically
treated in early adolescence, risk regretting the decision after they are
old enough to realize their losses,' Lovdahl added.

She said the ordeal left her with 'deep physical and emotional wounds and severe regrets'.

She also claims the hospital and doctors did not provide her and her
parents proper 'informed consent', which would have introduced therapy sessions, something she says was never offered.

In a statement, her lawyers criticized the procedures as 'an insane form of child abuse'.

'We believe cases like this are the best way to stop them, especially in liberal states like California, where reckless ideologues are pushing this radical agenda,' said attorney Charles Limandri.

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals has been contacted by DailyMail.com for
comment.

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We should be shooting more Republican Christian rapists. Torture the
white supremacists before killing them.

So, Let’s Talk About Republicans and Sex Crimes
This seems like an appropriate moment.

From left to right: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (who admitted to
sex crimes), Rep. Jim Jordan (who was accused or turning a blind eye to
sex crimes), former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore (who was accused
of … well, you know), and Rep. Matt Gaetz (who is being investigated for possible sex crimes).

Because American politics are now just one, long, low-rent nightmare, Republican culture warriors have spent the past few weeks slandering their various enemies as being soft on pedophilia. For some time, this sort of
raving was mostly confined to adherents of QAnon, the Trump-idolizing conspiracy cult that believes Democratic politicians and other elites are secretly operating a global child trafficking ring.

But a confluence of events has helped bring a version of it mainstream.

During the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of judge Ketanji Brown
Jackson in March, Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz attempted
to smear the nominee by inaccurately claiming that she had a record of
handing out unusually light sentences in cases where defendants were
accused of viewing child pornography. The issue descended deeper into
absurdity after three moderate Republicans voted to confirm Jackson this
week and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—the walking id of MAGA-
America—tweeted about them, saying “Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile.”
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Meanwhile, defenders of Florida’s new “don’t say gay” law, which strictly limits public school teachers’ ability to discuss LGBTQ people and issues
in the classroom, began referring to the legislation as an “anti-grooming” bill—evoking the deeply homophobic idea that an adult would only talk
about these topics with a child in order to prime them for abuse. After
Disney, one of Florida’s largest employers, called for the law to be
repealed, conservative social media influencers and Fox News personalities
like Laura Ingraham launched a wild crusade against the company accusing
it too of being complicit in “grooming.”

This is all galling. But it’s especially rich considering that, of the two major parties, the GOP has many more notable and recent scandals involving
the sexual abuse of minors and young students—as well as a recent track
record of reacting to them with a shrug.

Let’s review some of that history …

In 2006, Florida Rep. Mark Foley was forced to resign after it was
revealed that he’d sent sexually explicit messages and propositioned
teenage congressional pages via email and text.

In 2015, former Rep. Dennis Hastert, the longest-ever serving Republican speaker of the House, pleaded guilty to making illegal hush-money payments
in order to cover up his history of sexually abusing high school wrestlers
he had coached decades before.

“Nothing is more stunning than having ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker
of the House’ in the same sentence,” the judge said at his sentencing.

During and after the 2016 presidential race, among the dozens of women who accused former president Donald Trump of being a sexual predator were
several contestants in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, who reported that
he barged into their dressing room while girls as young as 15 were
changing. (Trump allegedly told them, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it
all before.”)
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His campaign denied the accusation, but CNN unearthed a 2005 Howard Stern interview where Trump bragged about walking into backstage dressing rooms
at the pageants he ran.

During the 2018 midterms, Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore was accused
of preying on girls as young as 14 and 16; the New Yorker reported that
his habit of trying to pick up high schoolers was so notorious that it
actually got him banned from a local mall.

Also in 2018, Rep. Jim Jordan, one of Trump’s fiercest allies and a co-
founder of the hardline conservative Freedom Caucus, became embroiled in a scandal over his time as a wrestling coach at Ohio State University, where
a team doctor named Richard Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005, was
found to have sexually abused more than 177 male student athletes.

An investigation commissioned by the university found that Strauss
regularly used examinations as an excuse to grope and fondle the students, sometimes to the point of ejaculation; often ordered them to strip nude unnecessarily; and in two cases, attempted to perform oral sex. Numerous
former wrestlers told reporters that Jordan was personally aware of the
abuse during the early 1990s but chose to turn a blind eye. The
Congressman simply denied having any knowledge of it—and suggested at
least one of the accusers claiming otherwise was acting on a personal
vendetta against him.

And finally, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is currently the subject of a
literal sex-trafficking investigation, which is looking into whether he
had sex with an underage 17-year-old girl, among other issues. (Greene is
close with Gaetz, who denies the allegations, and has defended him.)

On Twitter, liberals have taken to rattling off this list of
scandals—among others—in response to conservative accusations of grooming
(in a somewhat apt turn of events, a former Republican National Committee staffer was sentenced for a child pornography conviction the same day
Jackson was confirmed to the court).
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Some have gone further, remarking that the GOP is particularly afflicted
with a pedophilia problem. “Every accusation is a confession,” goes one
popular refrain. (Some large social media accounts have been trying to
make the phrase “pedocon” stick.)

Personally, I don’t think Democrats ought to start earnestly debating with Republicans over which party really has more pedophiles overall (which is
a sentence I can’t really believe I’m typing, but here we are). Sexual
abuse and misconduct doesn’t have a partisan valence. You can certainly
find some Democrats out in the world who’ve been convicted on child porn charges. And never forget that Anthony Weiner went to jail for sexting a 15-year-old.

But if conservatives are going to smear progressives as “groomers” and
pose as the nation’s protectors of children, it’s certainly fair to bring
up this history in retort. It’s also entirely valid to note how weak the
GOP’s response has been to recent scandals concerning its own rank-and-
file.

The way Republicans set aside the vast array of sexual abuse charges
against Trump and lined up behind him has been discussed so many times
that there’s no real need to go over it again. The party’s response to
Moore, meanwhile, was what you might describe as, well, semi-pathetic. To
their credit, a number of elected Republicans called on Moore to exit the
race or said they would vote for a write-in candidate, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee pulled its funding from his campaign.

The Republican National Committee did as well, at least briefly.

But after Donald Trump decided to reendorse Moore, the RNC resumed its
support of his candidacy, stating, “We stand with the president.”

When it came to Jordan, congressional Republicans simply circled the
wagons. In 2018, then House Speaker Paul Ryan waved off demands for an
ethics committee inquiry into whether Jordan was lying about his conduct
as a wrestling coach, saying that the panel “??investigates things that
members do while they’re here, not things that happened a couple of
decades ago when they weren’t in Congress.”
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He then called Jordan “a man of honesty and a man of integrity.”

Later, in 2020, Jordan’s GOP colleagues selected him to become the top
ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, which handles federal criminal legislation—including on issues such as sex trafficking and child pornography. Liz Cheney, then the No. 3 Republican in the House, said it
was a “totally unified decision all around.”

This all unfolded in the face of credible allegations that Jordan not only
knew about the abuse at Ohio State, but had responded to multiple students
who told him about it with comments like “If he tried that on me, I would
kill him.” By all accounts, Strauss’ behavior was an open secret. Six
former wrestlers told CNN that they were personally present when Jordan
heard misconduct complaints about the doctor. A former ref also filed a
lawsuit alleging that he complained to Jordan and another coach after
Strauss masturbated in front of him, and they merely responded, “Yeah,
that’s Strauss.”

Jordan claims that he was cleared of any wrongdoing in the official report
by Ohio State’s investigators, which did not mention his name. “The investigators concluded what we have said from the beginning: Congressman Jordan never knew of any abuse, and if he had he would have dealt with
it.”

But that’s not what the report actually said. Rather, the investigators
wrote that, except in the case of one coach, they could not “identify any
other contemporaneous documentary evidence” proving that athletic staff
were aware of Strauss’s actions. In other words, there was no paper trail. However, they added that “22 coaches confirmed to the Investigative Team
that they were aware of rumors and/or complaints about Strauss, dating
back to the late 1970s and extending into the mid-1990s.”
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It is theoretically possible that Jordan really had his head so deeply
buried in the sand during his coaching days that he knew nothing about
what was happening on his team, and that the more than half-dozen
witnesses who claim otherwise are simply lying or misremembering. (Several other former Ohio State coaches issued a statement saying they were
unaware of Strauss’s misconduct).

A much simpler explanation, however, would be that Jordan himself lied to
cover his complicity in a culture of tolerance around sexual abuse. Either
way, Republicans chose to make him one of their most powerful members in Congress in spite of this unresolved cloud.

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Keefe Chambers <nowomr@protonmail.com> wrote:

Groomer is triggered, lol.

We should be shooting more Republican Christian rapists. Torture the
white supremacists before killing them.

So, Let’s Talk About Republicans and Sex Crimes
This seems like an appropriate moment.

No, no it’s not. It’s an appropriate moment to talk about consequences of insane child abuse that’s happening across the nation to please minuscule number of sex perverts and doctors profiteering on mentally unstable
children.

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On Wed, 21 Jun 23 03:07:18 UTC, D. Ray <d@ray> wrote:

A California woman is suing the hospital that removed her breasts when she >was 13, claiming her doctors pushed her into the procedure under the >'erroneous belief' she was transgender.

Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, says she underwent the invasive surgery after being >urged to 'entertain' the plans by medical professionals when she was just >11-years-old.

According to a lawsuit filed by Lovdahl against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals >and four doctors, it is claimed they 'handed Kayla the prescription pad,
and allowed her naïve, emotional, childish, rollercoaster of feelings to >dictate the so-called 'treatment' that she would receive.'

The legal challenge comes amid a growing chorus of 'de-transitioning'
youths, many of whom claim they were subjected to death threats and >intimidation after turning their backs on the 'cult-like' transgender >community.

There will be many more such cases in the future. Doctors, as a
result, will decline doing these procedures for fear of being sued.
The trans activists will start screaming that doctors should be forced
to perform these procedures.

Just another day of leftie "logic" reaching its proper conclusion.

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