A woman who allegedly self-diagnosed herself with gender dysphoria as a teenager is suing two Wisconsin surgeons who removed her uterus and breasts, alleging they performed the procedures without her proper consent.
Jay Lick and Katherine Gast, as well as UW Hospital, were named in the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Lick reportedly removed the now 23-year-old woman’s uterus when she was 19, while Gast performed her double mastectomy when she was 21.
Both surgeries were considered gender-affirming procedures, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit argues that the woman self-diagnosed herself with gender dysphoria in her late teens, but that doctors did not independently diagnose her, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
The lawsuit alleges that the doctors committed negligence and failed to obtain informed consent, discrimination under the Affordable Care Act, hospital negligence, and denial of benefits and care that would have been provided to a “non-transgender woman,” according to the lawsuit. .
The woman, who now lives in Chicago, said she previously identified as lesbian and then as nonbinary to “cleanse her of the severe psychological distress and trauma she suffered as a child,” according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit accuses the doctors of malpractice based on the fact that the woman had diagnosed herself. Getty Images
The patient allegedly had a “series of traumatizing events within her childhood home, including sexual abuse.”
He eventually fled the home and was diagnosed with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the report.
He stopped taking testosterone in the last year and began the “detransition” process after determining that his childhood trauma caused mental anguish, not his biological sex, the outlet reported.
She is now mourning “because she will never be able to naturally conceive a large family, as expected in her culture,” the lawsuit states, explaining that the woman is Jewish.
“UW Health and its providers care deeply about the health and well-being of patients and work hard every day to ensure patients receive the best care possible,” hospital spokesperson Sara Benzel told the Wisconsin State Journal.
The spokesperson did not provide further details about the case or how informed consent is obtained at the hospital, according to the outlet.
The woman’s attorney, Daniel Cragg of Eckland & Blando in Minneapolis, said his office is representing the woman to rectify the alleged personal injury matter, not for public relations purposes.
“We’re not doing this as a (public relations) stunt like a lot of detransition cases do,” Cragg told the Wisconsin State Journal. “This is a personal injury (medical negligence) case.”
The woman began her detransition after realizing that it was her childhood trauma, and not her gender, that was causing her mental stress.Getty Images
Last month, the Wisconsin Senate passed a bill that would ban sex reassignment surgeries for minors, although Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said he would veto the measure.
Fox News Digital reached out to UW Hospital and the woman’s attorney Sunday morning for additional comment on the matter.
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