CV NEWS FEED // A woman sued a Nebraska hospital for “negligence and lack of informed consent” five years after doctors there performed a double mastectomy on her. She was only 16 years old at the time.
As reported by Newsweek, Luka Hein, who is from Minnesota and is now 21, “filed a lawsuit against the Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine alleging medical malpractice and negligence against medical professionals who conducted her gender transition [sic] surgery.”
The lawsuit reads:
When Luka was just 16 years-old, her breasts were surgically amputated as the first step in her ‘gender affirming care’ with the Defendants. As more fully described herein, the actions of the Defendants constitute negligence and are violative of Nebraska’s Consumer Protection Act.”
The suit further alleges that the defendants “knew or should have known that Luka was in a demographic of girls who were exploring transgender identity based on the influence of social media.”
As such, Defendants were negligent in failing to explore and factor in the influence of social media that clouded Luka’s decision making,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants failed to meet the standard of care by recommending and/or performing irreversible transgender procedures when Luka may have been swept up in a social contagion and/or unduly influenced by social media.
By all accounts, Hein was an emotionally disturbed teenager who dealt with a host of mental health troubles. One year before her mastectomy, she was admitted into a “partial care psychiatric program.”
The lawsuit continues:
Around this same time, Luka was groomed online and preyed upon by an older man from out of state who enticed her to send him sexually explicit pictures. When she refused to send more, he threatened her. She became terrified and law enforcement was notified.
An upsetting and difficult investigation followed. The entire incident was traumatizing for Luka and her mental health declined further. Her psychiatrist returned her to the intensive partial care psychiatric program in May 2017.
The Daily Mail added that Hein, who now deeply regrets the surgery, “says the surgery has left her with daily pain, while the hormone drugs may have robbed her of the chance of becoming a mother.” The Mail also noted that around the same time as her grooming, her “parents went through a bitter divorce.”
She became increasingly withdrawn and spent more time online, where she began following trans influencers and became convinced she was born the wrong gender.
Luka claims she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a therapist within an hour during her first session and was referred for ‘top’ surgery after her second appointment.
Hein told The Daily Mail, “I was going through the darkest and most chaotic time in my life, and instead of being given the help I needed, these doctors affirmed that chaos into reality.”
She continued saying that she was “talked into medical intervention that [she] could not fully understand the long-term impacts and consequences.”
This phenomenon is described in Hein’s lawsuit is described at length in Abigail Shrier’s best-selling 2020 book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.
Shrier explained in an interview with the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) that her
book is based on the scientific research of public health researcher, Lisa Littman at Brown University and what she found when she did a study of these adolescents was that all of a sudden you had…70 times the expected prevalence rate of trans identification within friend groups and these friends were coming out as trans within a very short period of time. So in other words, all of a sudden you had clusters of trans identified teenage girls, and they were coming out together with their friends.
