Now 18, Young Woman Sues for Gender Mutilation Suffered as a Minor. Step in the Right Direction.
#37 2023 The Rowen Report
Dear Subscriber,
Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would be seeing about transgender issues, programs, education, grooming, politics, etc in the mainstream news nearly every day. I grant that transgenderism has been with us, generally unrecognized, for many, many years, while homosexuality was clearly recognized, though not well tolerated until more recent times.
From what I can tell, transgender may affect 0.3% of the population. But it is getting about 100x the news coverage. And in the federal system, being TG in today’s administration, might be your ticket to “qualify” for a job. Where in the Constitution is the federal government charged with any aspect of personal human behavior or identity?
Now interestingly, autism has spiked during the recent years. Estimates are up to 1 in 37, up from one in several thousand in my youth. Actually none of my age peers can remember anyone with autism or transgender in our youth.
There seems to be a relationship between autism spectrum and gender dysphoria. To me, our society should be aggressively looking at the causes of these problems rather than spending hundreds of billions of our children’s futures on endless wars of today, and participating in the killing and maiming of people overseas.
Here at home, puberty blockers and surgery are performed on minors. Below is a report I just read of a 13 year old girl who was hustled into having her breasts chopped off at 13, and then, once through puberty, she awakened to the fact that she really is a girl.
Now I do think that our brains are first wired to sex while we are in our mother’s wombs. But it does not appear to be a hard wiring. I’ve looked at several reports (Scandinavia) on transgender children who went through puberty. About 80% reverted to identifying with their birth sex. This makes sense to me. At puberty, there is an outpouring of endogenous hormones, which can finish off the wiring and sexual identity of the adolescent. Yet with political pressure which has metastasized to peer groups online, and craziness in our educational institutions, children are losing the grounding of natural development PRIOR to puberty, which natural development has a high likelihood of righting the problem naturally for the child. San Francisco now has a dedicated honorary transgender “district”. We see political subdivisions involved in this bizarre world. Behavior, which in my day would be considered aberrant, even by gay standards, is glorified. (Incidentally, gay friends of mine tell me they believe the TG agenda is undermining the gains they have made over the past few decades, and they are concerned). Government is getting into these issues with education in schools literally grooming children in sexuality, and as mentioned, glorifying local districts.
This is happening worldwide and simultaneous. Much like the COVID misinformation debacle. Logic says to me that it must be originating from a deliberate and diabolical source.
I want to emphasize lessons my parents taught me 65 years ago at a much more conservative time in human sexuality. What two or more consenting adults choose to do behind closed doors is their business. It is not mine to judge. But what is being brought forward to young impressionable children openly and without knowledge or consent of parents IS my business, and especially if I had children of that age. While I am not responsible for my grandchildren, their parents are, I have lots of concerns about their exposure to mind the altering poison in the media and internet.
I am pasting a story below for your review. It is a short and worthy read. From the outset of this controversy, I’ve maintained opposition to any hormonal or surgical manipulation of minors. I don’t think a minor is capable of making such a decision, and parents can be manipulated by industry, media, social median, internet pressure and more. Personally, I think giving endocrine disrupting chemicals or chopping off breasts or male genitals is child abuse. This is just my opinion, and as you are so entitled to yours, I am entitled to mine, at risk of political hit. I am really happy to see this now 18 year old young woman suing for the mutilation she received at the hands of conventional physicians when she was just 13.
Please consider the overlap we see now with autism and gender dysphoria. Something is disrupting brain function. I personally don’t think it is one thing. I think that the 200+ toxins found in cord blood may be synergistic in intoxicating the brain and nervous systems of our children. It could be in air, water, food, vaccines, microplastics, and more, if there is more. A barrel containing waste will keep the waste in check until it fills up and overflows. I believe our planet has reached the latter stage. We saw it years ago with mixed gendered fish and amphibians, and I warned openly that these creatures were the canary in the coal mine. We are reaping what we have sown. (Galations 6:7-9).
Please know that penile-plasty is being performed in sex change operations. The penis is filleted open and the skin of the penis inverted into the pelvis to try to make a semblance of a vagina, using the more sensitive skin of the penis as the lining. These surgeries are a nightmare. Same as trying to make a false phallus in a biological female. The complication rate is astronomical. The purpose of these procedures allegedly is to assist in the mental health of the children. Children are then left sterile, and possibly totally dysfunctional urologically and sexually. I fault my profession for this. I heard an interview today where certification board exam questions and answers are requiring doctors in training and certification to be taught that proper care for these children is hormone manipulation and surgery. It should not be up to the state to outlaw this barbarism on minors. The profession should have held to the original oath of the physician – the Hippocratic Oath – which most important tenant is “ABOVE ALL, DO NO HARM.” That oath has been supplanted by an oath to “Evidence Based Medicine”.
I am shocked today, that when it comes to many abnormalities, you are advised to just patiently observe and return in a year or more or if it changes, even in the case of some early cancers. But with gender dysphoria, in an undeveloped minor. Body parts are lopped off.
Hormone blockers, breast and penis mutilation can possibly hurt children, and such harm comes at the hands of the profession. For the 20% who might ultimately need some form of intervention, let it happen when their bodies have gone through the natural “wiring” process and when they are mentally capable of understanding what they are doing separated from the immature peer pressure of their young age groups.
Proof that something is amiss? Children are going into puberty much sooner than my generation. Children in China are on average 9 inches taller than their great grandparents. Yes, nutrition can be a factor. But, I think chemical endocrine disruptors are at work here, and such is seen in the ambiguous sexual development of fish and amphibians these days.
To Your Excellent Health,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
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Girl Sues Hospital for Removing Her Breasts at Age 13
Layla Jane speaks at a Detransition Awareness Day rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 10, 2023. (Courtesy of Pamela Garfield-Jaeger)
June 15, 2023Updated: June 15, 2023
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.
While three doctors said Jane was too young for cross-sex hormones, she was eventually referred to several other doctors who prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones. Within six months, they removed her breasts.
The hormones and puberty blockers were given based on a single, 75-minute session with Susanne Watson, a psychologist, according to the suit. Dr. Winnie Tong, a plastic surgeon, concluded after a 30-minute session that Jane could have her breasts removed.
“Defendants did not question, elicit, or attempt to understand the psychological events that led Kayla to the mistaken belief that she was transgender, nor did they evaluate, appreciate, or treat her multi-faceted presentation of co-morbid symptoms,” the suit reads.
“Instead, Defendants assumed that Kayla, a twelve-year-old emotionally troubled girl, knew best what she needed to improve her mental health and figuratively handed her the prescription pad. 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.”
Doreen Samelson, a psychologist not named as a defendant, by contrast, told Jane and her parents that she couldn’t receive puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones due to factors such as her age.
Jane, whose given name is Kayla Lovdahl, has since “detransitioned,” or resumed identifying as a girl.
She’s currently receiving psychotherapy for mental health issues such as social anxiety disorder. That kind of treatment should have been offered instead of the drastic steps the defendants took, the suit states, noting that, per a number of studies, youth who experience gender dysphoria often ultimately become comfortable with their birth sex.
I read recently statistics about the Philippines, which has one of the shortest average heights in the world, but, at least from 2003 to 2013, had not increased. I wonder why some populations greatly increase in height and others don't in in the same timeframe. Possibly genetics, and epigenetics influenced by environmental factors such as poor nutrition, temporarily stunting the growth of certain populations with greater height potential. But that would be the opposite of your theory about abnormal growth caused by environmental factors.
I have wondered, and concur with your assertion, assumption or wild-eyed guess that there is likely a connection here. Autism has gone from 1/10,000 to >1/40 in my lifetime (and yours) as vaccinations have gone from three shots and a sugar cube in our day — none administered at birth — to more than 70, with several administered at birth and administered to the mother before birth, allegedly for the benefit of the newborn, which is absurd, since the newborn is a) largely isolated for several months or more than a year, b) still operating on mom's immune system for at least six months and c) can anyone explain why hepatitis vaccines need to be given to babies NOT born to crack mothers or prostitutes? Mothers are tested for hepatitis during pregnancy, so these shots are completely unnecessary. If they are needed at all, they could be administered around puberty or even later, given that the risk of a STD is minimal in children who are not raped.
The idea that the psychological madness of gender dysphoria is exploding and vaccines and autism are exploding simultaneously, makes sense, a lot of sense.
Curious, doc, have you read Marc Girardot's bolus theory, about the likelihood that improper vaccinations (intravascular due to improper or lack of aspiration) could explain why not all kids suffer autism while bolstering the viability of the vaccine-autism connection? It also explains, better than any other suggestions I've read, why there is such disparity in outcomes with covid jabs, where the majority seem to have no problem, but some have huge problems. Of the people who have come to me about jab "side" effects, there is a great disparity in the magnitude and duration of their symptoms.