Isabelle Ayala, a 21-year-old biological female, is suing the American Academy of Pediatrics and her healthcare providers , alleging civil conspiracy, fraud, and medical malpractice in pressuring her into undergoing a gender transition when she was a teenager.
This legal challenge is a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the nation from a detransitioner to name the AAP.
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Ayala alleges the AAP published and disseminated a fraudulent 2018 “policy statement” that has been perceived by many as an authoritative guide by medical professionals for endorsing the “affirmative model” for gender dysphoria.
The lawsuit that was filed on Monday claims that the policy lacked sufficient evidence and used misleading and fraudulent citations to support its conclusions and recommendations. She claims the policy should not have been used as a guide for treatment of gender-confused children across the country.
Some of the doctors listed in her lawsuit include Dr. Jason Rafferty, who authored the 2018 AAP policy statement and has been one of the biggest advocates of gender-affirming hormones, and Dr. Michelle Forcier, who recommended Ayala testosterone injections after only one meeting.
When Ayala was 14 years old, she suffered from numerous mental health conditions, including ADHD and PTSD from a previous sexual assault, and was coping with her parents’ marital separation, along with the social isolation and transition of moving to a new state from Florida to Rhode Island with her father and his new girlfriend.
She then discovered the transgender community online and explored a gender transition. After one meeting, Dr. Rafferty encouraged testosterone injections for her gender transition. Her mother refused consent, but then the doctor’s team pressured her mother into accepting the transition by allegedly suggesting that her child would commit suicide if she did not give in.
Ayala claims her doctors were “testing” the “radical new approach on patients like her.”
The 2018 AAP model policy used by the doctors is listed in the lawsuit, and she says it “included immediate, no-questions-asked ‘affirming’ of a child’s desired gender and quickly placing them on a conveyor belt of life-altering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or experimental surgeries.”
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When Ayala moved back to Florida and decided to go off of hormone treatment, she discovered irreversible damage and problems including vaginal atrophy, excess facial and body hair, compromised bone structure, and an autoimmune disease which have only further affected her mental health.
Numerous other detransitioners are now suing their healthcare professionals and were recently featured in the multipart documentary series Identity Crisis produced by the Independent Women’s Forum.