When I first read of this particular lawsuit, my immediate reaction was, “Well, sweetie… this is what you asked for.” I immediately felt a pang of guilt for having such a harsh reaction, especially to someone in such obvious pain.
After some reflection, I remembered that if I hadn’t have listened to some of the questionable recommendations by medical professionals, I would have been dead a long time ago.
After a serious brush with death after landing in the ER with an advanced case of PVT (Portal Vein Thrombosis), I was told that the medication I would have to take for the rest of my life (Coumadin) was initially a rat poison.
It was after another scary episode of bladder cancer that I found that the treatment was weeks’ worth of flooding my bladder with the tuberculosis virus. After each treatment, I literally had to pour half-a-gallon of chlorine bleach into my toilet every time I urinated, to ensure no one in my family came down with TB.
But back to the topic at hand. A Canadian woman, 34-year-old Michelle Zacchigna of Orillia, Ontario, has decided to take all those medical “experts” to court.
As it turns out, Zacchigna had her breasts hacked-off as well as having her uterus cutout. All done at the strong recommendations of health care providers, who failed at providing a very vulnerable patient with even the existence of other alternatives.
Interestingly enough, Zacchigna isn’t the only one. An Aussie and a Brit are also taking medical professionals to court. Unfortunately for one of them, this is too late. At the directions of his doctors, he already had his penis cut-off.
Penned by reporter Mia Ashton of ThePostMillenial.com;
A detransitioned Ontario woman who was prescribed testosterone and underwent both a bilateral mastectomy and a hysterectomy during a mental health crisis in which she believed herself to be a man is suing the healthcare providers who allegedly facilitated her medical transition.
Michelle Zacchigna, 34, of Orillia has filed legal action against a total of eight doctors and mental health professionals who treated her during the years that she identified as transgender. Zacchigna alleges that each failed to address her complex mental health needs and instead allowed her to self-diagnose as transgender and undergo irreversible procedures that she now deeply regrets.
The Statement of Claim filed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice documents a series of what Zacchigna said are failings spanning years of treatment. Zacchigna began pursuing medical transition in 2010 when the affirmative model of gender care was still in its infancy. Under this model, clinicians affirm a patient’s self-diagnosis of a transgender identity and provide medical interventions such as hormone therapy and surgeries rather than the traditional exploratory psychotherapy.
“The Defendants permitted Michelle to self-diagnose as transgender and prescribe her own treatment without providing a differential diagnosis or proposing alternative treatments,” reads the claim.
Zacchigna has struggled to come to terms with the permanent changes from her hormone treatments and hysterectomy surgery have caused: a low voice, male-pattern balding, facial hair, an enlarged clitoris, a flat chest, and the inability to ever become pregnant.
As I previously noted, Zacchigna isn’t the only one taking health care providers to court;
Zacchigna is one of several detransitioned people bringing legal action against the gender-affirming care providers whom they allege harmed them by failing to address underlying mental health needs. In the US, Chloe Cole and Camille Kiefel are suing the healthcare providers who facilitated their medical transition. Kiefel, like Zacchigna, was a vulnerable mentally ill adult when allowed to consent irreversible medical interventions. Cole was just a child of 13.
In Australia, Jay Langadinos is suing the psychiatrist who allowed her to begin medical transition while she too was going through a mental health crisis, and in England, Ritchie Herron is bring legal action against the doctors who allowed him to consent to hormone therapy and the amputation of his penis while he was in a similar state of mental distress.
I’ve been holding this card close to my chest for a while, and I’m ready to show it. In November 2022, I commenced legal action against the Canadian health care providers that facilitated my medical transition in Ontario.https://t.co/uR1PMDgle7
— Michelle🦎♀ (@somenuancepls) February 21, 2023