Camille is a woman in her early thirties. She is suing the two counselors who signed off on her double mastectomy surgery to affirm a “non-binary gender identity.” Camille endured trauma as a young girl as well as physical and mental health challenges through her teens and twenties.

Not long after a painful surgery that left her without breasts and suffering many complications, Camille realized that identifying as “non-binary” and hating her body were trauma responses and attempts to escape the burdens of being a woman. She has recently received genuine medical and psychological help overcoming physical and mental health problems, largely through holistic medicine and embodiment therapies, and deeply resents and regrets that she was misled into believing that harming her body in pursuit of a “gender identity” held the answers for her anxiety, depression, and self-doubts.

She hopes to hold mental health professionals (and the clinics who employ them) accountable for misdiagnosing her and facilitating a medical procedure that has left Camille feeling physically and emotionally mutilated.

Camille is suing four defendants in her lawsuit: a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed professional counselor, each of whom claimed to “evaluate” Camille and recommended her for double mastectomy surgery to “affirm” her “non-binary identity,” and the two health care clinics that employ these mental health professionals; both clinics claim to specialize in helping the “LGBTQ” community.

Camille’s legal claims include:

1) Professional malpractice – breach of the duty of care that mental health professionals owe to an individual client;

2) Intentional infliction of emotional distress; and

3) Fraud.

Camille alleges that the mental health professionals who claimed to evaluate and diagnose her ignored her history of trauma and her extensive medical and mental health issues, instead “affirming” her belief in having a “non-binary identity” and urging her to pursue “chest reconstruction” surgery as the path to self-actualization.

Camille is alleging damages, injuries, and harms in the form of emotional distress, financial losses (such as not being able to work), and physical injuries resulting from an unnecessary double mastectomy surgery performed to “affirm” the misguided belief that adopting a “non-binary” identity would resolve her medical and psychological health needs.

WoLF is proud to be the initial financial sponsor of Camille’s lawsuit to help her launch this groundbreaking lawsuit. WoLF’s support made it possible for Camille to file her lawsuit.

WoLF plans to support at least two additional female plaintiffs in similar cases in the upcoming months.

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