The UCLA student suing several medical providers after she was “fast-tracked” into changing her gender says she wished her carers had taken a different approach in addressing her problems.

The Washington Examiner previously reported that the student was suing a transgender youth doctor in a “historic lawsuit.” The student, 20-year-old Clementine Breen, underwent a gender transition at 12 before later regretting her decision.

“In retrospect, I wish that somebody had suggested real, genuine therapy first, instead of gender-specific therapy, because really the only therapy that I received until much later was specifically focused on gender dysphoria, and didn’t connect my gender dysphoria to anything else,” she told NBC News.

Breen said she began questioning her transition in 2024 after she began dialectical behavior therapy, a sort of talk therapy.

“I sort of started questioning my own gender identity and if I was doing this for the right reasons,” she said.

Breen said she is seeking “some semblance of justice or change” from the lawsuit and “financial reimbursement for the amount that this has cost me and my family.”

She also said she wants to “help dismantle the rumor that no one is ever fast-tracked into gender treatments.”

Breen said her “mental health progressively declined” following the treatments, which were reportedly spurred by a meeting she had with a counselor after her questioning whether it’d “be easier if she were a boy.”

The counselor reportedly then told her parents, who took her to the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

Breen was then treated and began her transition with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and she received a double mastectomy at 14, according to the lawsuit.

“This case is about a team of purported health care providers who collectively decided that a vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health struggles and suffering from multiple instances of sexual abuse should be prescribed a series of life-altering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, ultimately, receive a double mastectomy at the age of 14,” Breen’s lawsuit states.

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The defendants in Breen’s lawsuit include Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, an adolescent medicine physician specializing in gender-related care; Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Dr. Scott Mosser, a plastic surgeon specializing in gender-related surgery; the Gender Confirmation Center of San Francisco; UCSF Health Community Hospitals; and psychotherapist Susan Landon.

A spokesperson for the Center for Transyouth Health and Development told NBC News that the center has “provided high quality, age-appropriate, medically necessary care for more than 30 years” but refused to comment on the case specifically.