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   From: lestern@none.com   
      
   This is how it ends.   
      
   A New York jury has awarded a detransitioner $2 million in the first   
   medical malpractice suit of its kind to go to trial.   
      
   The six-member Westchester County panel found that psychologist Kenneth   
   Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin disregarded “standards of care and   
   procedural guardrails by pressuring” their patient, Fox Varian, then 15,   
   “into addressing gender dysphoria with permanent surgery.”   
      
   Varian, now 22, is a biological girl who believed herself to be a boy   
   for a time in her teenage years.   
      
   She went through a gruesome, unnecessary double mastectomy when she was   
   too young to consent.   
      
   Her lawyers argued that her psychologist planted the idea of   
   transitioning, and the impressionable teen went along with it.   
      
   Varian’s mother testified she was afraid her daughter would commit   
   suicide if she did not relent and allow the surgery to proceed.   
      
   It’s been a common guilt trip laid on so many parents of gender-confused   
   children: “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?”   
      
   Varian’s mom was made to feel as if she had no choice.   
      
   How many other families have struggled with similar decisions for fear   
   of being labeled “anti-trans” or of sparking a showdown with their kid’s   
   school for not “affirming” a child’s delusions?   
      
   Varian’s big monetary win will surely inspire similar lawsuits.   
      
   And it should.   
      
   From 2016 through 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services   
   estimated, approximately 3,700 American adolescents aged 12 to 18   
   underwent surgical interventions due to gender dysphoria diagnoses.   
      
   That’s a huge number of kids being convinced to do the absolutely   
   impossible — subject themselves to invasive surgery in a misguided   
   attempt to overturn biological reality.   
      
   Now every one of them has a strong legal basis for arguing that they   
   were forced into a giant, life-altering, horrible error.   
      
   And that’s just surgery: Other interventions can do long-lasting harm,   
   too.   
      
   Maia Poet, a detransitioner who believed she was a boy as a young teen,   
   talks about the pain and agony she must endure today because of “breast   
   binding” — a procedure that trans advocates tout as “temporary,” in   
   which a girl flattens her breasts close to her body with a tight-fitting   
   medical device to mimic the look of a boy’s chest.   
      
   “Now at 26, I live in pain,” Poet posted on X. “My upper body is   
   permanently disfigured. Schools still secretly give these dangerous   
   medical devices to little girls.”   
      
   The mother of a Maine teenager who got such a chest binder at her school   
   has taken her case to the US Supreme Court, after a lower court ruled   
   that the school board could not be found liable for the lifelong harm   
   done to her daughter.   
      
   Or how about hormone therapy, which the “gender affirmation” crowd   
   claims to be a “harmless” intervention far less serious than surgery.   
      
   A 2024 study out of Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, found that   
   95% of women who took testosterone and other drugs to try to look and   
   sound like men experience bladder and bowel problems, “pelvic floor   
   dysfunction” and “postmenopausal” symptoms like urinary “leakage” in   
   their 20s.   
      
   “I am still suffering from the consequences of being prescribed   
   testosterone when I was a teenager for my ‘gender dysphoria’,” posted   
   Prisha Mosley, another detransitioner who is suing her doctors for her   
   ordeal.   
      
   “I’ve been off of it for a few years now, and I’m still dealing with   
   debilitating pelvic and vaginal atrophy, and other side effects too,”   
   she wrote. “I wasn’t warned.”   
      
   So much damage done to children and young people by doctors who should   
   have known better — all in the name of the fantasy that biological sex   
   is something they can change.   
      
   Fox Varian’s win should open the floodgates on a wave of similar cases.   
      
   A mania gripped the medical establishment and a large swath of our   
   society over the last decade, and lawsuits like Varian’s are necessary   
   to break the fever.   
      
   Nothing else has worked.   
      
   Brave young people like Chloe Cole have stepped forward to explain the   
   pain and agony of the children who have gone through these ghoulish   
   procedures — and yet they continue.   
      
   Whistleblowers like Jamie Reed have sacrificed their careers to expose   
   the rushed diagnoses and horrific side effects seen at top transgender   
   clinics — and yet they continue.   
      
   Governments have sought to ban or restrict this freakish experimentation   
   on kids — and yet it continues.   
      
   Perhaps hitting those responsible where it hurts — in their wallets —   
   will turn the tide.   
      
   We’re out of options.   
      
   It’s up to the courts to make these fiends pay a price for imposing   
   their twisted ideology on our kids.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/02/02/opinion/to-end-transgender-madness-make-the   
   -ghouls-who-pushed-these-surgeries-pay-the-price/   
      
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