# America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued  ## Metadata - Author: [[The Economist]] - Full Title: America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Dr. Olson-Kennedy, a prominent youth gender medicine practitioner, is being sued by a former patient, Clementine Breen, who claims she was harmed by inadequate care. Breen's lawsuit alleges medical negligence, including a lack of psychological assessment before starting hormone treatments and surgery. She believes that if she had received proper evaluations, she would not have pursued medical transition at such a young age. - URL: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/12/06/americas-best-known-practitioner-of-youth-gender-medicine-is-being-sued ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > But Dr Olson-Kennedy has emerged as a critic of what she views as undue and unnecessary “gatekeeping”. “I don’t send someone to a therapist when I’m going to start them on insulin,” she told the *Atlantic* in 2018. In her published research, Dr Olson-Kennedy has reported prescribing cross-sex hormones to patients as young as 12, and referring patients as young as 13 for double mastectomies. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jeeh1vseqhe779bwe7phrmcz)) > Ms Breen and her lawyers claim in their lawsuit that when her parents expressed reservations about testosterone, Dr Olson-Kennedy spoke with them away from Clementine. “Dr Olson-Kennedy first told them that Clementine was suicidal,” they write in the complaint. “At that time, Clementine had never had any thoughts of suicide, and she certainly had never expressed anything along those lines to Dr Olson-Kennedy. Dr Olson-Kennedy went even further [...] by telling them that if they did not agree to cross-sex hormone therapy, Clementine would commit suicide.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jeeh855kypdd2rzfqhy7jzh1))