Fri Sep 15, 2023 – 5:58 pm EDT
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) – A 21-year-old woman named Luka Hein is suing the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) for irreversibly harming her by rushing a double mastectomy to “treat” her gender dysphoria at age 16 without first exploring less radical or permanent options.
The Center for American Liberty, one of the groups representing Hein (along with the Thomas More Society and Keating O’Gara law firm), explains that as a teenager she suffered mental health issues due to a variety of traumatic events, which eventually manifested in self-cutting and suicidal thoughts. While searching online for an answer, she stumbled upon gender “transitioning,” leading her to think of herself as male and pursue a transition.
In just two visits, doctors at UNMC’s gender clinic sold her on the idea of jumping straight to breast removal, convincing her and her parents that she would likely kill herself if she did not go along with it as well as concealing from her studies indicating that gender “reassignment” surgery was potentially harmful, according to the lawsuit.
“As a proximate result of the actions of the Defendants, and each of them, Luka’s
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