Colorado Mom Urges Caution for Parents After Son’s Hormone Treatment

By Neeraja Deshpande | IW Features

But Michael had already fallen deep into the trenches of gender ideology, possibly with the help of his Denver-area school. 

Thinking they would “put the brakes on this,” Burns said she and her husband took Michael to a therapist in their network at a Kaiser Permanente clinic.

Unfortunately, then unbeknownst to the Burnses, Kaiser Permanente is one of the greatest offenders in the gender ideology space, having spearheaded medical experimentation on gender-confused minors both as an insurer and as a clinical provider of care. Several detransitioners who were medicalized as minors, including Chloe Cole and Kayla Lovdahl, are now suing Kaiser Permanente for malpractice.

“After three visits with the Kaiser psychologist, the determination was made that my son had gender dysphoria,” Burns said. “I looked back on the letter the psychologist wrote in diagnosing him, and there were two primary reasons why the psychologist deemed my son to have this affliction.”

In retrospect, the reasons were “insane,” she added. “The first was that his circle of friends was girls. The second was that he went on a date with a boy once.”

“I trusted that a board-certified psychologist would not put my son on the wrong path. It took me a couple of years to actually come to terms with that,” Burns continued. 

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