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Can adult detransitioners who underwent treatment when they were minors, bring a class action lawsuit and against whom?
<p>I notice that, on social media, there are numbers of videos by detransitioners, or those unable to reverse their procedures, expressing their regret for a childhood decision that was facilitated by medical and other professionals but now regretted.</p>
<p>They may now be adults or indeed still minors but what they have in common is that they transitioned as minors.</p>
<p>If they wanted to band together and bring a class action, who might they sue and on what grounds?</p>
<p>I am mainly interested in US and UK law but other countries are  of interest.</p>
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<p>Doctors Have Failed Them, Say Those Who Regret Transitioning Written
by Alicia Ault March 22, 2022
<a href="https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20220322/doctors-have-failed-them-say-those-who-regret-transitioning" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20220322/doctors-have-failed-them-say-those-who-regret-transitioning</a></p>
<p>'I feel angry': Why some people regret and reverse their transgender
decisions 'I’m angry that every single doctor and therapist we saw
told us this was the one and only option' Author of the article:Tom
Blackwell Published Dec 14, 2020
<a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/i-feel-angry-why-some-people-regret-and-reverse-their-transgender-decisions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/i-feel-angry-why-some-people-regret-and-reverse-their-transgender-decisions</a></p>
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<p>Informed consent is required for a surgical procedure. &quot;Informed&quot; includes having knowledge of the risks. The relevant legal question would be whether the doctor in question did adequately apprise the patient of the risks.</p>
<p>On an individual basis, patient A could sue doctor X for the resulting harm. It is possible that 5 patients might sue the same doctor on this basis, which gets expensive and inefficient. If there is a well-defined and large-enough class, it may be possible for the action to be certified as a class action. 20 people might be a large-enough class.</p>
<p>The defendant would be &quot;whoever is responsible for the wrong&quot;. That might be a single practitioner, or a hospital that the practitioner(s) work for. The hospital is an obvious plaintiff, if they failed in their duty to assure that their employees adequately informed patients of the risk.</p>
