psychiatrist Sued for approving Woman's gender transition after just one meeting

psychiatrist Sued for approving Woman’s gender transition after just one meeting
Woman sues psychiatrist for approving gender transition after just one meeting. psychiatrist Sued for approving Woman's gender transition after just one meeting

An Australian woman who transitioned to male, then realized a terrible mistake had been made, is suing the psychiatrist who approved her female-to-male hormone treatment following an initial meeting. The psychiatrist also signed off on two surgeries to remove her breasts and uterus.

Jay Langadinos, now 31, was just 19 when she first met Dr. Patrick Toohey, a veteran Sydney psychiatrist, in May 2010.The teen was referred to him by her endocrinologist to determine if she was suitable for a gender transition.

The specialist wrote that Langadinos was very young and needed “a throughout psychiatric work-up before embarking on hormone treatment,” according to a statement of claim filed in the New South Wales Supreme Court and cited by the Sydney Morning Herald.

After his first meeting with the teen, Toohey concluded that Langadinos suffered from gender dysphoria and was fit for testosterone therapy, the document states.

The next time Langadinos had an appointment with Toohey in February 2012, she told him she was eager to undergo “top” surgery to have her breasts surgically removed as part of her transition.Toohey approved the double mastectomy for his patient, who underwent the procedure in April of that year, according to the court filing.

A month later, Langadinos met with Toohey for the third and final time to discuss having her uterus removed.

According to the lawsuit, Toohey wrote that he could find no “psychiatrist contraindication to proceeding with hysterectomy as part of gender transition,” clearing the way for Langadinos, then 22, to undergo surgery in November.

Now, nearly a decade later, Langadinos — who no longer identifies as male — is suing Toohey for professional negligence, claiming that he green-lit her hormone therapy even after she told him she suffered from social phobia.

She also alleges that he was negligent in not recommending she get a second opinion ahead of her hysterectomy.

The court filing states that Toohey strongly recommended that Langadinos seek social and family therapy, but she did not heed that recommendation. Despite that, he went ahead and signed off on her two surgeries.

Langadinos says that in 2016 — four years after her hysterectomy — she was receiving psychiatric treatment from another doctor when she “came to the realization that she should not have undergone the hormone therapy or the first and second surgeries.”

It’s my belief this psychiatrist would’ve been sued either way. If he’d denied this person’s ability to transition he’d have been sued for that. Now that this person is suffering the consequences of their actions and have buyers remorse they are looking for someone to blame.

Of course people shouldn’t be allowed to transition after one meeting with one doctor but this person also needs to take responsibility for the decisions they themselves made.

Read the full story at the New York Post

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