On Nov 3 a Vancouver Supreme Court judge issued a Without Notice injunction 
ordering cosmetic surgeon Dr. Daniel Mckee to not remove the breasts of a 
teenage girl who wants to be regarded as male. The girl's mother also sued her 
daughter's general partitioner Dr. Andrea Szewchuk for prescribing testosterone 
without seeking her guardianship permission. The court forbids mentioning the 
name of the mother or child. It is believed to be the first such order of its 
kind in Canada. On Nov 13 lawyers for the doctors will apply to hide their 
clients from public view by anonymizing their names.

The mother A.M. has expressed her concerns:

"I am appalled by the lack of any clinical standards and medical protocols that 
permit doctors to give gender changing steroids and mastectomies to traumatized 
teenage girls caught up in a fad who wish they were boys.

"I am shocked the government through TransCare BC supports such unscientific 
and very risky experimentation. There is little evidence the irreversible 
treatment lessens gender dysphoria or reduces the 19 times normal suicide rate.

"It is outrageous the SOGI 1 2 3 school program pushes these depressed and 
anxiety ridden girls to gender change clinics when what they need is 
psychiatric care.

"Worst of all the law lets it all be kept secret from parents. 

"Why is the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia permitting 
this?"

"The mother needs to see all of the protocols that led to the two non 
specialist doctors coming to the conclusion that what they intended to do is in 
the best interest of the child." - Carey Linde, lawyer for the mother

CONTACT

Carey Linde, lawyer, Vancouver
+1 604-684-7794
careylinde@hotmail.com  

SOURCE: The Law Offices of Carey Linde