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Dec 13

Gender-affirming care.

A radial forearm free flap (RFFF) involves taking the skin, fat, nerves, arteries and veins from the wrist to about halfway up the forearm to create the fake penis.

Truly from a horror movie. This procedure is advertised by children’s hospitals.

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Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@BillboardChris

Dec 6

Massive news!

Clementine — a young woman given puberty blockers at 12, testosterone at 13, and a double mastectomy at 14 — is suing!

This lawsuit is devastating, and involves the biggest names in the fraudulent field of ‘gender medicine.’

She’s suing Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who runs the busiest gender clinic in America; the surgeon, Dr. Scott Mosser; the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; St. Francis Memorial Hospital; and therapist Susan Landon.

THE LAWSUIT

This case is about a team of purported health care providers who collectively decided that a vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health struggles and suffering from multiple instances of sexual abuse should be prescribed a series of life-altering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, ultimately, receive a double mastectomy at the age of 14.

Clementine is a female who suffered from a complex, multi-faceted array of mental health symptoms as a child and adolescent.

She is also a survivor of multiple instances of sexual abuse as a child and adolescent, something that was never explored, addressed, or discussed by Defendants in the course of their purported treatment.

Her presentation of symptoms and concerns included, among other things, anxiety, depression, autism, undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), potential bipolarism, as has been suggested by one of her psychiatrists, ongoing confusion regarding her gender, and eventually psychosis (including audio and visual hallucinations), panic attacks, and paranoia.

Her family also has a lengthy history of mental health issues. She needed psychotherapy to evaluate, assess, and treat her complex co-morbid mental health symptoms.

Instead, she was fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging puberty blockers (age 12), cross-sex hormones (age 13), and “gender-affirming” surgery (age 14).

Around the age of 11 or 12, likely due at least in part to the sexual abuse she experienced as a young child, Clementine began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy.

She expressed as much to her then school counselor in some of her sessions discussing her then-declining mental health, who told Clementine that she was transgender and called her parents to tell them the same.

Clementine’s parents, completely surprised by and unaware of how to handle this supposed diagnosis but wanting to care for their daughter, decided to take Clementine to “the experts,” which led them to the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and under the care of Dr. Johanna Olson-Kenedy (“Dr. Olson-Kennedy”), the director of the Center and one of the most prominent advocates for so-called pediatric “gender-affirming care” in the country.

Clementine had just turned 12 years old.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy and the team at LA Children’s immediately and unquestioningly “affirmed” Clementine as transgender, and at her very first visit, after mere minutes, Dr. Olson Kennedy diagnosed Clementine with gender dysphoria and recommended surgical implantation of puberty blockers.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy performed no mental health assessment. She did not ask about things like past trauma, abuse, or mental health struggles or diagnoses.

She involved no other providers or health care professionals in this purported gender dysphoria diagnosis and recommendation for puberty blockers.

Instead, she simply took a handful of platitudinal statements from a scared, confused, and traumatized barely-12-year-old girl to give a life-altering diagnosis and handed her the prescription pad.

In short, it took Dr. Olson-Kennedy and the team at LA Children’s a single visit to send Clementine down a life-altering, traumatic, body-disfiguring, and irreversibly damaging path of transgender medicalization.

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Under Defendants’ “care,” from the ages of 12 to 19, Clementine had a puberty blocker surgically inserted into her left arm at age 12, was prescribed “gender-affirming” cross-sex hormones from ages 13 to 19, had a “gender-affirming” double mastectomy at only 14 years old, and was urged to get a “gender-affirming” hysterectomy as a 17-year-old.

She did not experience any long-term relief from these gender dysphoria “treatments.” Rather, her mental health progressively declined, as she proceeded into depression, anxiety, psychosis, hallucinations, self-harm, and suicidal ideation and even attempted suicide, none of which she had experienced prior to her gender medicalization.

Defendants also failed to obtain informed consent, which, for this type of “treatment,” is a process requiring an extended period of time and complete assessment of the patient’s mental health. It involves extensive discussion of the known and unknown risks of the proposed treatments and ensuring that the patient and parents understand and fully appreciate the long-term consequences and effects, such as the loss of the ability to ever conceive a child or breastfeed one.

It requires discussion of alternative methods of treatment. It should additionally entail discussion of the evidence base, or lack thereof, to support the off-label use of the proposed “treatments.”

None of the above was discussed or explained in Clementine’s case. In fact, the opposite occurred. Defendants obscured and concealed important information and failed to disclose the significant health risks associated with a female taking high doses of harmful male hormone drugs and puberty blockers.

Even worse, Defendants made numerous material misrepresentations in order to convince Clementine’s parents to agree to puberty blockers, such as assuring them that puberty blockers are “completely reversible,” and cross-sex hormones, including asserting that Clementine would commit suicide if she did not begin taking testosterone.

Defendants’ coercion, concealment, misrepresentations, and manipulation are appalling and represent an egregious breach of the standard of care. This misconduct also constitutes fraud, malice, and oppression.

Eventually, through mental health care she began receiving at the end of high school and the natural desistance of gender dysphoria as one progresses into adulthood, Clementine realized
that she was not “trans.”

She was a vulnerable child suffering from untreated PTSD from traumatic
events in her childhood. Consequently, she detransitioned and no longer identifies as a male. But the damage has been done, and it is profound.

As a result of Defendants’ so-called “gender-affirming care,” Clementine now has deep physical and emotional wounds, severe regrets, and distrust of the medical system.

She has suffered physically, socially, neurologically, and psychologically. Her voice has permanently deepened. Her female body did not develop, and she has a very masculine body structure. Her fertility is almost certainly destroyed from the combination of years on puberty blockers and testosterone. And even if she could conceive and deliver a child, she would not be able to breastfeed because her healthy breasts were removed when she was only 14.

And she has to see the scars from that unnecessary surgery every day. She has experienced vaginal atrophy, and her sex life has been materially impacted. She is also at risk for bone-related problems later in life. In short, her body has been profoundly damaged in ways that can never be repaired.

Furthermore, her mental health condition is now also damaged by medical abuse trauma, for which she will likely need long-term mental health care as a result.

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Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@BillboardChris

Nov 25

New research provides strong evidence that DEI training is producing extraordinary psychological harm.

The New York Times and Bloomberg were offered this story and jumped on it enthusiastically, only to have editors shut it down at the 11th hour.

We are the media now.

In experiments in which participants were exposed to ‘anti-racist’ DEI rhetoric quoted directly from Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, it induced baseless attributions of hostility and a willingness to punish percieved perpetrators — despite no evidence of wrongdoing or any racism whatsoever. 🧵

Similarly, in research on anti-Islamophobia, and anti-casteism pedagogy — taken directly from training materials — NCRI and Rutgers found similar results.

These anti-oppressive pedagogies reliably produce increases of 20-30% in hostile attributions and desires for punishment with no evidence of wrongdoing.

Some of the results, especially in the anti-casteism work, produced extraordinary harms: ~30% increases in agreement with Hitler quotes where the word ‘Jew’ was exchanged for upper caste members.

More info here:

nationalreview.com/news/dei-train…

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Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@BillboardChris

Nov 5

Massive news!

Congress is investigating the NIH and Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the gender doctor from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Johanna was given $9.7 million to research puberty blockers on kids.

Nine years after the study began, she refused to publish the research because it showed puberty blockers didn’t help the 95 children being experimented on.

Dear Director Bertagnolli:

The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is conducting oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $9.7 million to an ongoing research project titled, “The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth.”

We are alarmed that the project’s principal investigator, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, is withholding publication of the project’s research findings which cast doubt on the efficacy of the “gender affirming” model, because she believes the findings could be “weaponized” by critics of transgender medical interventions for children.

NIH is responsible for overseeing its extramural research projects to ensure supported researchers practice transparency, exemplify scientific integrity, and are proper stewards of taxpayer funds.

Therefore, in light of the NIH grantee’s unwillingness to release the research project’s findings, we ask that you provide documents and information to assist the Committee’s oversight of this matter.

One research study in this project, known as the Trans Youth Care (TYC) study, gave
medical puberty blockers to 95 children in the early stages of puberty and observed subsequent mental health outcomes over two years.

Nine years after the study began, Dr. Olson-Kennedy claims the TYC cohort did not report any mental health improvements after initiating puberty blockers.

Furthermore, Dr. Olson-Kennedy claims the TYC cohort’s mental health was “in really good shape” when the study began, implying that puberty blockers have no adverse clinical impacts on mental health.

However, a 2020 paper authored by TYC researchers conflicts with Dr. Olson-Kennedy’s account.

According to this paper, the children in the TYC cohort did experience troubling mental health symptoms when the study began. In addition to gender dysphoria, 51 percent of the TYC cohort reported elevated depression symptoms and 57
percent reported clinically significant anxiety.

Two-thirds of the children reported suicidal
ideations and one fourth of those with suicidal ideations reported at least one past suicide attempt.

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Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@BillboardChris

Oct 22

I’m at UCLA and I just met Clementine, who recently detransitioned.

When she was 12, Johanna Olson-Kennedy at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles put her on puberty blockers.

At 13, she was put on testosterone.

At only 14 years of age, she was given a double mastectomy!

Clementine had suffered sexual abuse, and that was the source of great trauma, and is why she didn’t want to be a girl.

Johanna Olson-Kennedy didn’t care about that. Within 30 minutes of her first appointment she was told she needed to go on puberty blockers, or she might kill herself.

Her parents were told they could have a dead daughter or a live son. This is standard practice at gender clinics. The only way they can justify this child abuse is to say that kids will die if they don’t do it.

Testosterone caused psychosis so Clementine went off it at 17.

She has now just turned 20, and can probably never have kids. She’s trying to get reconstructive surgery but insurance companies only want to pay for destruction of children’s bodies, not reconstruction.

I hope Clementine sues, and helps to bring down this industry, but mostly I’m incredibly thankful for her bravery in speaking up.

If you don’t believe this is happening. please listen to her story.

“And here’s the other thing about chest surgery. If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them!” -Johanna Olson-Kennedy

No they can’t, Johanna, but they can help send you to prison.

https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1500298187780747267

Johanna Olson-Kennedy previously received a $5.7 million grant from the NIH for research into transitioning children.

This ‘research’ included giving cross-sex hormones to 8-year-olds!

https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1500298187780747267

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Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@BillboardChris

Oct 17

A Christian, African-American, military family in Maryland have lost their autistic son to the state, because his parents refused to say he was a girl.

Article: dailycaller.com/2024/10/17/exc…

Following the recommendation of their son’s counselor on November 9, 2021, John and Jane took John III to Children’s National Hospitalfor help following a suicide attempt. It was the last day their son would ever be in their care.

Weeks before the suicide attempt, John III had been diagnosed with autism.

At the time, John told the Daily Caller, he did not realize Children’s National Hospital had a Gender and Autism Program for autistic and neurodivergent youth — a population that is overrepresented among gender distressed adolescents.

The executive director of the program, Dr. John Strang, is a co-author of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) clinical guidance that recommends gender-distressed children receive sex-change drugs and surgeries.

At the hospital, John and Jane were informed by staff for the first time of their son’s alleged gender dysphoria and told they must affirm his new female gender identity, according to a lawsuit filed by the parents against Children’s National. The lawsuit states that the Christian couple hold “traditional family values consistent with their evangelical Protestant faith” and would not affirm their son as a female, despite the hospital’s demands.

“They didn’t like the fact that we wouldn’t go along with what they were recommending,” John told the Daily Caller of the hospital’s reaction.

Children’s National Hospital filed a series of emergency holds preventing John III from leaving the facility and demanded the parents treat him as a girl, initiate sex-change interventions, and “convert to the ‘new Christianity’ by engaging in faith-conversion sessions” with the hospital’s non-binary, transgender chaplain, Lavender Kelly, according to the lawsuit.

John told the Daily Caller they were asked to stop reading certain passages of the Bible that affirm traditional sexual values and gender.

“We are Bible believers and you are telling me I can’t talk about Adam and Eve? Abraham and Sarah? The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit? Essentially I can’t read my Bible.”

During a family meeting at the hospital, John says he and his wife were told to use their son’s “chosen” female name and new pronouns. When a gender distressed child chooses to identify as a different sex, they often choose a new name and refer to their birth name as their “dead name.”

The lawsuit describes the emotional pain John felt upon hearing a Children’s National Hospital staff member refer to his son’s name as his “dead name.”

“I share the same name with both my father and my son, and she spoke death over it. I was devastated to hear those words come out of her mouth. I followed up by asking. ‘What is a dead name?’ She barked, ‘It’s her legal name.’ This told me that she used the dead name terminology to hurt me. And she did just that,” the lawsuit describes.

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