Hein soon lost her appetite, started self-harming, and talked about committing suicide. She began to struggle in school and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks, the suit claims. The University of Nebraska Medical Center declined to comment, citing pending litigation.Īccording to the suit, Hein began experiencing mental health problems in 2015 when the then 13-year-old’s parents were getting a divorce and she was forced to split her time between two households. It claims they were each “negligent in failing to question Luka’s self-diagnosis, instead ‘affirming’ her toward irreversible chemical and surgical solutions.” Hein started to identify as a male after following transgender influencers online. Stephan Barrientos, who assisted in the surgery, as defendants. Perry Johnson, who performed the “top” surgery and Dr. Nahia Amoura, an OB-GYN physician Megan Smith-Sallons, an “affirming therapist” at the gender clinic, Dr. The 28-page complaint, filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska on Wednesday, lists Dr. Hein is now seeking financial compensation from the medical center and “accountability for the fact that these put me through this,” she said.
“I was talked into medical intervention that I could not fully understand the long-term impacts and consequences of.” Luka Hein, now 21, is suing the doctors who performed a double mastectomy on her when she was 16.
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“I don’t think kids can ever consent to having full bodily functions taken away at a young age before they even know what that means,” Hein said. She added that she should not have been able to consent to the surgery and treatments, as she was still a minor. “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 told the Daily Mail. She says the surgery and treatments left her in constant pain and may have robbed her of the chance of becoming a mother. Hein then met with staff members at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, who she claims coerced her into undergoing “top” surgery and started her on hormone treatments. Luka Hein, now 21, claims she was going through a tough time emotionally as a teenager, when her parents were getting divorced and when she was being groomed online by a man from another state.Īs she struggled with her mental health during this time, she said she found influencers online who extolled the virtues of breast surgery and hormones.
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