20-year-old Kaya Clementine Breen, who emotionally struggled after being sexually abused as a young child, contends a school counselor "fast-tracked" her into surgical mutilation when what she needed was real help.
At 11 years old, she reportedly began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy. When she expressed this to her then-school counselor, her anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder were ignored, and she was misdiagnosed with gender dysphoria.
"The school counselors have their place. It's ideology that is to be rejected," submits Dr. Michelle Cretella of Advocates Protecting Children. "Sadly, our current schools [are] taking the place of the parents. So, public schools are fraught with danger in terms of what's best for children and what's best for families."
Dr. Cretella, a pediatrician, conservative activist, and peer reviewer for the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, says what Breen needed was counseling with a qualified therapist.
"Sound, ethical, intelligent counselors, physicians, etc. who are not corrupted or capitulating to woke ideology have to go deeper and take a very thorough history and get to work with individual therapy to address those underlying issues," she says.
In her professional opinion, the only way to stop the epidemic of gender transitioning of minors is for victims of so-called "gender-affirming care" to file lawsuits, as Breen has done.
