Malpractice ruling signals legal reckoning for gender procedures on minors
By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. | Commentary, American Thinker
A major change in the medical landscape on transgender surgeries on minors arrives, and the press is trying to ignore it.
When Fox Varian stood before a New York jury last month and described the moment her bandages were removed after a double mastectomy, her words were stark: “It’s so hard to face that you are disfigured for life.”
What the jury saw was not a political mascot or an abstract policy debate, but a young woman whose body had been permanently altered during adolescence, long before she had the maturity or perspective to grasp the lifelong consequences of that choice.
After deliberation, the jury awarded Ms. Varian $2 million in damages, finding that her psychologist and surgeon fai...










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