Transing Of Children In America Is Dead

A new $2 million verdict indicates that the “transitioning” of children in America is dying or dead.

If you go back just a few years, it was de rigueur for every major commentator and every major politician to say that boys or girls could become one another.

Major medical establishment organizations claimed that it was the purest form of science to say that boys could become girls, and in fact, the best treatment for people suffering from gender dysphoria was for them to have hormone treatment and surgery.

In 2021, the American Medical Association was telling governors to oppose state legislation that would prohibit “medically necessary” gender transition-related care for minor patients, calling such efforts “a dangerous intrusion into the practice of medicine.”

That, of course, was not relegated only to psychological care or social transition, or even to hormones. It also included, on many occasions, surgery.

In fact, the AMA specifically put out a letter stating:

Empirical evidence has demonstrated that trans and non-binary gender identities are normal variations of human identity and expression for gender diverse individuals. Standards of care and accepted medically necessary services that affirm gender or treat gender dysphoria may include mental health counseling, non-medical social transition, gender affirming hormone therapy, and or gender affirming surgeries.

This was the standard of care, according to the American Medical Association.

It was a load of horsesh*t.

If you ever wonder about the signal moments in the last 30 years of American history in which people fell out of love with institutions and decided that institutions had betrayed their trust — this was a big one.

There have been many, including the coverage of Biden’s mental health issues, education, Critical Race Theory, scientific organizations, and COVID.

But the biggest one was likely this — a lie that everyone above the age of one and a half knew was a lie — which was to deny that boys and girls aren’t the same. The medical establishment said that boys could become girls, girls could become boys, and the best treatment for someone who was struggling with body dysmorphia was not to work on their mental health, but to surgically alter their body by cutting off healthy body parts, by creating fake new body parts.

This was insanity. It was pathological. It was nuts.

But it became de rigueur.

The fact that Democrats are still struggling with this shows how out of touch they remain with reality.

So what finally broke the system? As always in America, trial lawyers.

The New York Times reported: “In the first malpractice verdict against providers of gender-affirming care for minors —”

Stop right there. That well-known language is insane. “Gender-affirming” is sex-rejecting. That’s what “gender-affirming” means in this context.

We are not talking about a woman who had a double mastectomy because she had breast cancer or the BRCA gene, and decided to have that double mastectomy, and now wants to reconstruct her breasts. That would be gender-affirming.

Gender affirming in this context means sex-denying. A boy believes he’s a girl, so they cut off his penis and testicles. That is what they mean.

Back to the piece:

In the first malpractice verdict against providers of gender-affirming care for minors, a jury in New York State has awarded a woman $2 million in damages for a double mastectomy she received as a teenager that she said had left her disfigured.

Obviously, it left her disfigured. That’s a reality when you have your breasts cut off, not because you’re worried that you’re going to get breast cancer or for any other real medical reason, but because you say you want to look more like a boy.

The plaintiff, Fox Varian, 22, of Yorktown Heights, had accused her psychologist and the plastic surgeon who performed the operation of failing to obtain adequate consent about the risks before she agreed to undergo the procedure in 2019. She also claimed that the providers had deviated from standard practices governing gender-related medical care. Ms. Varian, who was 16 at the time of the surgery, was assigned female at birth but as a teenager identified as a man.

Legacy media verbiage that is totally psychotic. “Assigned female at birth?”

You are not assigned anything. A doctor looks at you and knows you are female by looking at you when you are a baby.

This woman later came to regret the decision to transition and returned to being a woman in accordance with her actual biology, an example of a process known as detransitioning, or what some people might call “recognition of reality.”

Very often, when people cite studies suggesting that people don’t really detransition, that is because the studies do not include people who don’t follow up with the doctor. The vast majority of people who decide that they don’t want to carry forward with their “gender transition” never get back in touch with the people who were trying to transition them in the first place.

Thus, the continued pressure tactics are used by people in this industry.

The Times continued:

According to Kinnon MacKinnon, who studies transgender care at York University in Toronto, a vast majority of young people who opt for a medical transition say the procedure resolves their gender dysphoria and improves the quality of their lives.

Do you think they’re coming back to Kinnon MacKinnon to explain that things went badly? That’s not the way that this works. 

So why do I say this verdict means that the transition of children in America is dying or dead? Because plastic surgeons now find themselves at risk of medical liability for doing something that is clearly non-medical, such as cutting off healthy body parts, doctors are going to stop doing it.

On Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons put out a statement saying:

Consistent with ASPS’s August 2024 statement that the overall evidence base for gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions is low certainty, and in light of recent publications reporting very low/low certainty of evidence regarding mental health outcomes, along with emerging concerns about potential long-term harms and the irreversible nature of surgical interventions in a developmentally vulnerable population, ASPS concludes there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents. ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.

What’s hilarious about this statement is that they are not making the case that they picked the age of 19 because the brain is developed enough for a teen to make a good decision. That is not the case they’re making. They’re not saying there’s a difference in kind between these sorts of surgeries performed on a 21-year-old and those performed on a 17-year-old.

The reason they are putting out “19 years old” is very obvious: At 18, you can legally consent, and once you can legally consent, the doctors can’t be sued.

That’s all that’s happening here. Liability came to the plastic surgeons, and now they’re saying, “We still want to do these surgeries because we get paid for them even though they’re really bad. We’re going to continue to do them, but we’ll do it for people above the age of 18.’

That is still bad medical practice. It does not solve the problem politically for people who claim that men can become women and women can become men.

This is a barrier for Democrats. When I was on Gavin Newsom’s show in California, this issue came up, and he really struggled with it. The reason he struggled with it is because he knows it is not only a political loser, but in his heart, he knows it is not true.

The vast majority of people in the United States also know it is untrue that a man can become a woman.

But there are social demands to mirror that nonsense. And if Democrats decide to follow this issue all the way down the political rabbit hole, they will not be able to get out. It is legitimately a barrier to entry for voters.

The bottom line is that if Democrats keep running up against both the science and legal liability, they are in for a continued world of hurt.