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You may have heard that one person has successfully sued and been awarded damages for surgeries performed on her to ‘affirm her gender’. Clayton Cramer has the breakdown on that here (ht B).

From the National Review

A woman who received a double mastectomy at the age of 16 under the guise of transgender-related healthcare was just awarded $2 million in the first successful medical-malpractice lawsuit brought by a destransitioner.

Fox Varian sued her New York-based psychologist and plastic surgeon for facilitating her gender-transition double mastectomy in 2019, independent reporter Benjamin Ryan who attended Varian’s recent trial, said. Although a host of detransitioners have sued doctors who rush to “affirm” gender confusion with life-altering surgeries, Varian’s is the first known successful lawsuit.

So it’s entirely a coincidence that the American Society of Plastic Surgeons has come out with this new stance:

The nation’s largest professional organization for plastic surgeons recommended that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until patients turn 19, changing the group’s stance on the politically charged issue and diverging from several other major medical organizations’ guidance.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons said Tuesday that it found “insufficient evidence” that the benefits of chest, genital and facial surgeries on minors experiencing gender dysphoria outweigh the risks. It leaned on two recent and heavily debated publications on the topic, the Cass Review by a senior doctor in England and a 2025 report issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Considering the fact that they earn metric boat-loads of money with these surgeries, it must be that someone did a cost-benefit analysis and figured that it is going to cost more in the future to continue to mutilate children.

The American Medical Association waffled out on this one, trying to hide behind the the ASPS’s new guidance.

Late Wednesday, the American Medical Association said it supports evidence-based treatment, including gender-affirming care. The association agreed with the surgeons’ society in part, but stopped short of saying surgeries should be deferred to adulthood in all cases.

“Currently, the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement,” the group said in a statement. “In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”

It’s all been a money game for doctors, psychologists, and other medical ‘professionals’.

This doesn’t mean that the fight is over, it just means that children won’t be subject to mutilation.

The true believers are still in the classrooms and are still going to try to mess with kids’ heads. And the courts are still behind this ideology as well:

A federal appeals court has denied a teacher’s challenge to the Montgomery County, MD, schools’ gender secrecy policy, rejecting her constitutional claims against the district.

The “speech” she objected to in the school guidelines is “part of her official duties as a teacher”—and, as such, unprotected by the First Amendment, a divided three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded.

As a Christian who believes there are only two God-given sexes, Kimberly Polk refused to comply with school guidelines requiring her to use her students’ preferred pronouns and to refrain from discussing any student’s gender identity with their parents. She applied for a religious exemption, which the school district promptly rejected.

Once a successful suit against school board members and teachers is awarded (which is going to be tough since school boards have historically not be found personally liable for the policies that they pass), then the others avenues will be blocked as well.