“We’re going to see more and more of these cases,” said Charles LiMandri. What kind of cases is he referring to? And who is Charles LiMandri?
For starters he is a very prominent San Diego-based lawyer whose firm represents “detransitioners.” LiMandri continued, “These lawsuits are rightfully a huge threat to the ‘gender-affirming care industry’ because they are exposing the dark side of a dangerous agenda that is hurting an untold number of vulnerable teens.”
On 12/523 Valerie Richardson of The Washington Times reported that an increasing number of people have “detransitioned” or stopped identifying with “transgenderism.”
These “detransitioners” include Soren Aldaco, Chloe Cole, and Prisha Mosley. All three “were prescribed drugs and underwent breast removals in their teens to adopt [a male] identity and later realized they preferred” being women.
Richardson continued, “They are suing the medical professionals who signed off on puberty blockers, hormone therapies and surgeries. They accuse the physicians of rushing them into gender-reassignment treatment as a fix for their mental health problems without adequate screenings or warnings about the long-term physical and psychological risks.”
One of the three, Soren Aldaco, is autistic.I was surprised to learn that according to a recent study, “people who identify as ‘transgender’ or ‘non-binary’ are three to six times more likely to have autism than people who do not.”
Are these situations in which a psychiatric problem was treated with surgery?
As best I can tell there are no long term studies of the natural history of transgenderism. Should these individuals be treated while still in their teens, or is it best to wait until the individual is old enough to decide, or is it best to do nothing?
There are a number of issues that need to be addressed with these cases. All three of these girls underwent transgender treatment when they were teens, and at that age should not have been able to make an informed decision to proceed. So where were the parents? Realistically, the parents of these girls likely have no experience with this sort of problem, and in fairness to Chloe’s parents not surprisingly supposedly succumbed to the ultimatum: “would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?” To me this is an example of a medical practitioner unfairly putting the ultimate guilt trip on the parents … if this is what was actually said.
Mark my words, these cases will be blockbuster cases one way or the other. If any one of the three is settled or won by the protagonists, there will be an unending deluge of additional cases brought by unhappy de-transitioners, and this could go on ad infinitum!!
It’s only a matter of time!
Stay tuned!
12/9/23