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June 08, 2004

You Can't Make This Stuff Up...

I'm sometimes actually afraid to read Walter Olson's Overlawyered because of what I'll find out is happening in our insanely litigious society. I was right...

From Times Online (UK):

A Transsexual who spent £60,000 on surgery to become a woman is suing her doctor after claiming that he misdiagnosed her with gender dysphoria.

Samantha Kane, 44, had the operation to change her gender seven years ago but now claims that the sex change was a terrible mistake.

After living as a woman since the surgery, Ms Kane, who lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, says that she was misdiagnosed and wants to find a way to restore male genitals to her body.

She is suing Dr Russell Reid, a consultant psychiatrist, for £186,442 personal injury compensation. She alleges that he negligently allowed healthy male organs to be removed and failed to properly advise her once he found out her medical history.

Maybe doctors should cut off Kane's head since that seems to be the source of all her problems...

From what I understand, it's a rather indepth and long procedure including a lot of psychoanalysis before these "changes" are made. It's not like on the first visit the doctor said, "oh, you're a little depressed? Let's cut-off your dick..."

Posted by Jeff Soyer at June 8, 2004 02:07 PM

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Individuals like Ms. Kane hinder gay rights...it's sad, pathetic and depressing...but good for lawyers! (Future lawyer) jk.

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Posted by: Steven Neff at June 8, 2004 08:24 PM

it probably was a good thing that Kane was evicted from the procreation pool

Posted by: dave at June 9, 2004 10:31 AM

"Maybe doctors should cut off Kane's head"

Um, I thought they did, along with the rest of...oh. Never mind.

Posted by: Ken Summers at June 9, 2004 11:40 PM

I can just imagine the jury groaning, and rolling their eyes, and looking alternatively at the ceiling, and their watches.

I mean, really, if you're going to spend lots and lots of money to hire somebody to do something to you which is difficult or, more likely, impossible to undo, I'd think you'd think about it, and make really sure that's really what you wanted for yourself for the rest of your life? Huh?

Posted by: Justthisguy at June 10, 2004 02:11 AM

I have heard of a woman who had the change to a male then recently was changed back to a female. she had a religious conversion and it really did ajust that part of pyche. I dont think that happens too often. Its a huge process, and you can die or mess yourself up really badly from all the hormone shifting around

Posted by: DancingRainGirl at June 14, 2004 02:24 AM

It's very sad, really. There are several of these cases running around the world and each of the litigants is after money (lots). Their plight is the result of the confusion between transgender and transsexualism that makes some people think we are all the same.

You can gauge the extent of the sickness of these wannabes by the way they blame the doctors instead of themselves for their predicament and scream to the world that all TS surgeries should be banned because of what happened to them.

If they could only realise they were never TS in the first place and that they lied convincingly so the doctors thought they were.

kaz

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June 08, 2004

You Can't Make This Stuff Up...

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