At 16 I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in under an HOUR and given sex change surgery after just two appointments… I’m suing the doctors who permanently mutilated me

A woman who claims she was rushed into transgender surgery is suing the doctors who performed a double mastectomy on her as a child.

Luka Hein underwent the irreversible surgery at the age of 16 and claims the operation has caused her daily pain, while the hormone drugs may have robbed her of the chance to become a mother.

The Minnesotan, now 21, went through a traumatizing period as a teenager when her parents went through an acrimonious divorce and she was cared for by a man she met on the internet.

She became increasingly withdrawn and spent more time online, where she began following trans influencers and became convinced she had been born the wrong gender.

Luka, from Minnesota, claims she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a therapist within an hour of her first session and was referred for “top” surgery after her second appointment.

She told DailyMail.com: ‘I was going through the darkest and most chaotic time of my life, and instead of getting the help I needed, these doctors confirmed that chaos became a reality.’

She added: “I don’t think children can ever come to terms with essentially having entire bodily functions taken away at a young age before they even know what that means.

‘I was persuaded into a medical intervention whose long-term consequences and consequences I could not fully understand.’

A lawsuit filed today by Ms. Hein in Nebraska accuses the gender clinic at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) of malpractice and seeks financial damages.

Luka said she is suing for financial compensation and “liability for these (doctors) doing this to me.”

In her 28-page complaint, she said that when she went back to the doctors to tell them she regretted the surgery, she was told to seek mental health care.

The lawsuit claims her doctor then said, “I think this is just part of your gender journey.”

“I was basically just pushed aside,” Luka told DailyMail.com

She has since decided to ‘detransition’ and live as a woman.

But the treatments reportedly left her with permanent scars, a deep voice and erratic hormones.

She also claims that she has pain in her joints, lumbar spine, hands, wrists, elbows and pelvic area due to hormone therapy. She adds that she cannot breastfeed and may be infertile.

Luka is the latest so-called “detransitioner” to take legal action against her doctors in lawsuits that could prove crucial in the heated US debate over transgender rights and medical procedures, especially those involving children.

Her papers were filed this afternoon in District County Court in Nebraska’s Douglas County.

They mention Dr. Ahia Amoura, a gynecologist, and Megan Smith-Sallans, who worked at the gender clinic as an “affirmative” therapist.

Also mentioned are Dr. Perry Johnson, who performed the surgery, and Dr. Stephan Barrientos, who assisted in the surgery, and both also work at UNMC’s gender clinic.

They are accused of medical malpractice in the complaint, which also requires a jury trial. The defendants did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s requests for comment.

Luka said her ordeal began in 2015, when her parents’ divorce turned the then 13-year-old’s world upside down.

She was forced to split her time between two households, and her life became “chaotic.”

Luka had a hard time at school and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks. She lost her appetite, started self-harming and talked about suicide.

She was diagnosed with depression and generalized anxiety disorder and placed on antipsychotic medication.

In 2017, Luka was groomed and harassed online by an older man from another state who convinced her to send him sexually explicit photos.

When she refused to send more, he threatened her. She became terrified and the police were notified.

When Luka started puberty, she hated having her period and felt extremely uncomfortable with her developing breasts.

Traumatized by her online encounter with the older man, Luka wondered if it would be best to have no breasts at all.

She began researching sexuality issues online and found transgender influencers who advocated hormones and surgery.

She ordered a coffin folder, transferred from an all-girls school and changed her name. Luka began to identify as male and told her parents and healthcare providers that she was transgender.

From what she learned online, she believed that removing her breasts would improve her mental state.

After just 55 minutes during her first session in July 2017, Luka claims the clinic diagnosed gender identity disorder in no time.

This “does not meet the standard of care for proper evaluation of gender identity disorders,” the lawsuit said.

The speed of the diagnosis created a “feedback system that manipulates patients like Luka into deeper – and more harmful – levels of transgender medical intervention,” the complaint adds.

In October 2017, Ms Smith-Sallans referred Luka to the gender clinic for a double mastectomy.

Before the surgery, Luka told DailyMail.com that she had stopped wearing her chest strap for a few months due to persistent rib pain.

She said, “I remember thinking, hey, this isn’t that bad. I still had surgery.’

On July 26, 2018, she underwent the irreversible procedure, which she “could not consent to,” according to the complaint.

Luka said the first week after surgery was “one of the worst times of my life.”

Since making her story public, Luka has become close to about 20 other detransitioners.

She said meeting people who can best understand what she’s been through is “one of the most healing things.”

In recent years, many states have taken steps to restrict or ban transgender health care for people under the age of 18.

Several medical associations say such health care saves lives among a group prone to suicide.

But opponents of trans ideology say sex is determined at birth and cannot be changed, that medical advisory groups have been hijacked by ideologues and that politicians must intervene to prevent parents, doctors or therapists from permanently harming children.

Many are alarmed by the sharp increase in the number of teenage girls with autism and other mental health problems calling for gender reassignment in recent years, and by new studies linking puberty blockers to weaker bones and osteoporosis.

Whether to allow medications and surgeries for trans-identifying children has become a frontline in America’s culture wars, with Republicans pushing to ban gender-affirming care in about two dozen states this year.

The number of gender reassignment surgeries performed annually in the U.S. has nearly tripled in recent years. About 48,000 patients underwent such surgeries over the five years studied, with about 13,000 procedures performed in 2019, the peak year, and 12,800 in 2020.