Detransitioner Lawsuit Against Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy Is Dismissed
Attorneys for a former patient of the controversial top pediatric gender medicine doctor could not overcome California’s strict three-year statute of limitations. They intend to appeal.
A California judge last week dismissed the lawsuit filed by a former patient of leading pediatric gender medicine specialist Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy and her colleagues. Attorneys for the plaintiff, a young woman who received gender-transition treatment from the care team as an adolescent and later detransitioned, could not get around the state’s strict three-year statute of limitations for such medical-malpractice lawsuits.
Kaya Clementine Breen, 21, claimed she received medically negligent treatment from her former care team, including a surgeon who performed a double mastectomy on her when she was 14. Her attorneys intend to appeal the dismissal, which Judge Joseph Lipner of the Superior Court for the State of California in Los Angeles issued on Oct. 29.
“While it’s disappointing, I’m not surprised,” Ms. Breen, who goes by her middle name, said in a direct message of the dismissal. “My intent with filing the…
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