Oregon Woman Sues Gender Transition Care Providers over Rushed Treatment that caused ‘Irreversible’ Damage
The Daily Mail recently reported that an Oregon woman, Camille Kiefel, is suing health providers after they approved her for a double-mastectomy surgery after just two consultations over Zoom. Kiefel accused the providers of recklessly abusing their “positions of trust and authority as mental health professionals.”
Kiefel, who had been struggling with severe mental health conditions for years, including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, HDHD, and CPTSD, began identifying as “non-binary” in 2016. Being led like so many others to believe that body-mutilating physical surgeries would cure their mental pain, she consulted providers to have her breasts removed in 2020.
“The 32-year-old is suing social worker Amy Ruff, mental health therapist Mara Burmeister, other unnamed medics, and Brave Space Oregon and the Quest Center for Integrative Health — two Portland-based centers for trans care.”
The Daily Mail
After a one-hour Zoom call with Ruff, and a 40-minute video session with Burmeister, both mental health “experts” wrote Kiefel a recommendation to undergo a double-mastectomy surgery. The two individuals who had the opportunity to be voices of reason and address the root problems, used the “gender-affirming care” model instead — confirming delusions and causing irreversible damage to a woman already suffering.
Kiefel now claims that doctors should have taken more time to address her mental health prior to taking surgical action. She explained that she feels deep regret over the decision to move forward with what her doctors told her would help cure the mental duress she was experiencing daily. She now suffers unexpected physical ramifications from the procedure, as explained in her YouTube testimony.
“Days after the surgery, I developed complications. One day I woke up and knew something was wrong. My feet were ice cold, starting to discolor, and in a hysterical state, I went to the E.R. I had developed random syndrome. They sent me home with a valium, which at first relaxed, then sent my body into shock, causing me to abruptly wake up with sweat pooled under my eyes.”
Camille Kiefel
In recent months, multiple ‘de-transitioners’ have spoken out regarding the heinous actions taken by the health care industry at large in order to profit off of their mental illness, while creating life-long patients. Guidelines created for medical providers on treating minors experiencing gender-dysphoria encourage early medical intervention, while lacking any proof that it is beneficial. Recent evidence suggests that most individuals experiencing gender incongruence grow out of it, given time and resources to assist them in accepting their biological-selves.
Kiefel, along with many other formerly trans-identifying individuals now advocate against the gender-affirming care model of treatment, which specifically harms people already battling mental illness by confirming their self-deceptions.
“It took me two years, but I am the most emotionally stable I have been in my whole life, but not because of the gender-affirming care I received—high risk, invasive, has left me with a deformed body, and complications I still struggle with today.”
Camille Kiefel
