Ex-Trans Teen to Sue Kaiser Permanente
Over Gender Transition as Minor

Vanderbilt, are you listening?

Hmpf. They'd have sued if KP did NOT perform. Consequences of getting what you do and don't want at the same time.

Most 15 year olds are not equipped mentally to make GOOD life changing, UNALTERABLE, PERMANENT decision of ANY kind. That is a job for parents. Sounds like the parents were LIED TO or at least critical information and possible alternatives were withheld INTENTIONALLY. You simply CANNOT withhold this kind of information 'accidentally' !! Maybe, just maybe a lawsuit like this along with a few more in the same vein will slow down and hopefully STOP this transgender LIE that is being sold and pushed by some VERY SICK people who are then being followed by the young, the ignorant, the stupid and the GREEDY !

Kaiser should counter-sue. Any insurance that paid for such a surgery would be wide open for these lawsuits if this isn't challenged and stopped.

I am hoping for what #3 posts....a wave of lawsuits by victims who were minors at the time of surgery. This will vary rapidly slow down this outrageous practice which is actually malpractice. We will also see the malpractice insurance companies start excluding these operations from coverage, or the rates will become too high for these butchers to afford.

If the main motive for doing these procedures is money (and I believe it is), perhaps the main motive for discontinuing them will be money as well.

I wish her luck. I am not confident she'll win given that jurors tend to be even more stupid than voters these days.

You wanted it you got it zero sympathy.

I hope she wins and wins a huge verdict for compensatory and punitive damages.

billions.. BILLIONS...

In 1973, Dead Ted Kennedy pushed through the HMO Act. Managed care was the hot liberal item in hose days, and a part of the HMO Act was that an HMO could not be sued for malpractice. Let me say that agin. An HMO cannot be (successfully) sued for malpractice. So unless the HMO Act was changed, and no one told me, her lawsuit will fail, unless she sues the physicians employed by the Kaiser Permanente HMO. (Kaiser Permanente has been held up as the gold stndard for HMOs going back to World War Two times.) That brings me to Medicare. I am watching a lot of insane ads for Medicare Advantge programs, which are HMO substitutes for traditional Medicare. The plans,at leasr being offered here in the land of Young Dr. Frankenstein's son, the Senator, include all sorts of benefits, including cash back each month to help pay for groceries, gasoline, over the counter medications! How can those plans afford to do that? By managing (that means limiting) medical care. My concern is that the dimocrats will put everyone into Medicare Advantage plans. The temptation will be great. My evil big sister, age 90, has had two bouts of brain cancer, and her neurosurgeon and oncologist wanted her to have a P.E.T. scan every six months. But because she chose a Medicare Advantage plan that was the cheapest possible, her plan does not cover P.E.T. scans. How much would she have to pay for each scan? 8000 dollars. So she doesn't get the scans. Welcome to HMOs. As for the girl/boy/girl, I have mixed feelings about her sexual quandry.

This looks like one of those situations where they're vulnerable to lawsuit either way -- by those rejected who later blame doctors for misguided denial of treatment, or by those accepted for surgery who later regret it. Damned if they do and damned if they don't. I'm not sure that completely absolves them from liability to the sin of mutilation, though.

Bull crap at 15 you know darn well what the result would be and what it entails !

Contributory negligence by the plaintiff.

Stupidity is unforgivable and punishment is always the result. Words of Agatha Cnristie and can apply to teenagers as well as adults.

No contributory negligence on the plaintiff. My state has 19 as the age of majority, and while this caused a bit of a problem for my dd, who turned 18 right before she went off to U of AL for college, with regards to many other things and for most children under age means they aren't smart enough and mature enough to make adult decisions. And what worries me is that transgender idiocy affects people on the autistic spectrum the worse. (Studies have shown that). They are most vulnerable- probably because many are more lonely and want to join a group. Euthanasia is another issue where vulnerable autistic people are over-represented.

Any doctor, hospital, insurance company, or government who is willing to do that elective surgery to a minor deserves to be sued. I hope it costs them ever dollar they ever made from those surgeries. Our medical community no longer cares about helping people. Their only goal is to get rich.

This could end up thwarting gender surgeries on minors. Better to be sued for not doing something which can be delayed until adulthood rather than doing something irreversible to a minor. The insurance companies should go after the parents who authorized it and the doctors who performed it.

The child's parents agreed to the surgery. She should be suing her parents, not the insurance company.

#16 - you had me there right up to the 'euthanasia' thingy. What, now?