Erin Friday, Esq. on X - "BREAKING NEWS - The first Detransitioner case WIN in the country. Minor had her breasts removed. Parent consented because doctors’ threatened that she would commit suicide if she was not “transitioned”. Fox Varian wins $2M. @megynkelly @libsoftiktok @_CryMiaRiver"
The First Verdict Has Landed in the Pediatric Gender Medicine Scandal - "After nearly a decade of reporting on institutional medical failures, I have learned to recognize the moment when a story quietly turns. That moment arrived this past week. A New York jury delivered the first successful malpractice verdict tied to pediatric gender medicine, a legal development that may prove more consequential than any policy statement or regulatory review... A jury awarded two million dollars in damages after finding that the medical professionals involved departed from accepted standards of care when approving and performing a double mastectomy on a sixteen-year-old girl in 2019. What the jury heard over three weeks of testimony exposes how a system designed to protect minors instead accelerated them toward irreversible harm. The plaintiff is now twenty-two. She no longer identifies as transgender. The jury found that the psychological evaluation and surgical decision-making process was deeply flawed, that critical steps were skipped, and that communication between the therapist and surgeon was inadequate. Most of the award was allocated to pain and suffering, with a portion designated for future medical costs... I have written extensively about the lethal opioid epidemic and the role that civil litigation ultimately played in forcing accountability. Criminal prosecutions failed to stop the overprescription of OxyContin and related drugs. Regulatory agencies failed. Medical boards failed. What finally changed the landscape was the sheer weight of private lawsuits and class actions. That avalanche of litigation pushed Purdue Pharma into bankruptcy and forced the Sackler family to commit billions of dollars to settlements. As a non-practicing attorney, I understand how the civil justice system works when regulation collapses. Litigation is a blunt instrument, but it is often the only one left when an industry loses its ethical bearings. Massive verdicts do not simply punish past conduct; they reshape future behavior by making malpractice insurance unavailable or prohibitively expensive. Entire lines of practice disappear not because legislators intervene, but because insurers refuse to underwrite the risk. That is why this verdict matters. For years, critics of pediatric gender medicine have warned that vulnerable minors were being rushed toward irreversible interventions without science-based psychological exploration, without meaningful long-term outcome data, and under an atmosphere of emotional coercion that routinely invoked suicide risk to justify speed. In this case, jurors heard testimony that a parent opposed the surgery but consented out of fear that refusal might lead to self-harm. They heard evidence that clinicians lacked full knowledge of the patient’s doubts and psychological history. They heard that key records were never obtained and that the professionals involved failed to meaningfully consult with one another. In other words, they heard facts that successful trial lawyers understand very well. This verdict is not the end of the story. It is the beginning. As with opioids, asbestos, tobacco, and defective medical devices, once a viable legal theory survives a jury trial, the plaintiffs’ bar takes notice. Many trial lawyers are politically liberal. That is irrelevant. What matters is that there is now blood in the water, a proven pathway to liability, and deep institutional pockets behind these practices. I have long believed that the civil justice system would be one of the key mechanisms that ultimately forces a reckoning in pediatric gender medicine. Regulatory bodies have been captured. Professional associations have abandoned caution. Legacy media scrutiny has been missing in action. In that setting, litigation remains a powerful tool. In my view, the pediatric gender industry represents the most serious medical scandal since the lobotomy era: an entire class of vulnerable patients subjected to irreversible interventions driven by ideology, debunked evidence, and institutional groupthink. Financial accountability will not undo the harm already done. But it may finally slow the machinery that continues to produce it. This verdict is an important marker. It signals that juries are willing to look past slogans and examine facts. It signals that standard-of-care arguments are resonating. And it signals that a litigation storm may be forming. It is long overdue."
Leor Sapir on X - "BREAKING: American Society of Plastic Surgeons issues new position statement opposing "gender-affirming" surgeries in adolescents under the age of 19. ASPS also acknowledges risks of endocrine interventions, poor guidelines, and inappropriate use of "autonomy" principle."
Leor Sapir on X - "The American Medical Association agrees with the ASPS about surgeries. If the AMA was wrong about surgeries, could it also have been wrong about hormones?"
American Society Of Plastic Surgeons Recommends No Longer Doing Those Surgeries That No One Was Doing | Babylon Bee - "Democrats have decried the statement as a blatant attack on trans youth which could lead to their being denied made-up surgeries. "This is nothing but political posturing," declared Senator Elizabeth Warren. "These so-called doctors are trying to limit access to suicide-preventing surgeries for trans youth - surgeries which do not, and have not, ever happened. Physicians simply do not perform gender surgeries on minors, which is what makes this guidance against these vitally needed surgeries so appalling.""
AG on X - "The AMA was among the leading groups opposing laws trying to restrict “gender-affirming” surgeries for minors a few years ago. The press would regularly cite them to create an impression of expert consensus on this issue. The current shift isn’t based on any significant change in the data available. Speaks volumes about how previous recommendations that affected countless lives were based on politics instead of sound evidence/science."
Benjamin Ryan on X - "People are shocked that all it took for the AMA to change its policy on pediatric gender transition surgeries was for another medical group, the ASPS, to do it. But this phenomenon is how the unanimity among the medical groups fell into place in the first place. It was only ever based on a few small committees within a couple of medical organizations, putting aside WPATH, which is a quasi-activist-medical organization. It got started in the 2010s as WPATH and the Endocrine Society, which have a lot of overlap between them and referred to one another's guidelines in their citations, put out guidelines. And then in 2018 a single medical resident wrote the American Academy of Pediatrics' policy statement on the gender-affirming care method. Along the way, other major medical associations took these other groups' lead, including the APA and AMA. And then all the other ones fell in line. These groups did not conduct major independent analyses of the evidence. Even the AAP never conducted a systematic literature review to support its policy statement. And in August 2023, the AAP said it was going to conduct one. But there is no sign that the organization has even started on that. Because if they ever did, there is only one conclusion that it could have: that the evidence backing providing gender-transition interventions to minors is weak and inconclusive. All this is to say is that the mantra "all major medical association support gender affirming care for kids" was always a hallow claim. What it really meant is that: "A few small committees at a few organizations decided to support this, in part because of one another, and all the other small committees at all the other organizations followed their lead.""
Roger Severino on X - "Here's what happens next.
1) They will deny they ever "really" recommended sterilizing surgeries on minors and that it was always up to doctor judgment.
2) As docs are hit with millions in judgments for surgeries *and* puberty blockers, they will officially drop their sex-rejecting hormones recommendation too.
3) When pressed on 2 they will answer ala 1.
4) Only when most of the culprits are retired or dead will the medical associations admit that it was an unscientific, immoral, heinous, harm inflicted on children.
5) They will repeat the entire cycle again on some other medical fad while saying "shut up and trust us, we're the experts, we're the science."
Meme - Hazel Appleyard: "This is one of the most unhinged things I've ever read. Her child's friend detransitioned and she's ANNOYED. WHAT"
Transgender Parenting: "One of my child's friends has suddenly and dramatically de-transitioned. I've known them as NB/ boy for years now, and while I can and will fully support her no matter how she identifies, it feels like whiplash and I'm feeling a way about it. My head right now: Was she faking it? Was she just looking for attention? My first reaction was to bristle at her parent's words, that she's done a "hard reset." I don't know, y'all. I need to get myself right because this is a child and she is entitled to being herself. I know this. So why do I feel annoyed/frustrated? It's literally none of my business, and I KNOW that. Help me work through this?"
Glenna Goldis on X - "Today I was fired by NY Attorney General Letitia James for speaking out against pediatric gender medicine (PGM). James supports "transitioning" kids with puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery. She sued the federal government to protect the PGM industry from investigations and funding cuts. And she argued (dubiously) that doctors who decline to offer PGM are liable for "discrimination." I was an attorney in NYAG's consumer frauds bureau, which did not work on anything related to PGM. Since 2024 I'd been raising the alarm publicly and within NYAG that PGM providers may be engaged in a dangerous consumer fraud. James's officials treated me like a pest. These attorneys struggled to explain why my public statements were problematic, apparently because they weren't engaging with the issue. When the general counsel finally identified an objectionable line in my blog, it was where I stated the holding of US v. Skrmetti (banning PGM isn't discriminatory). She wrote that it contradicted James's legal position. Indeed. NYAG's ethics chief warned me it was unethical to "take public legal positions that conflict with" James's. The Rule of Professional Conduct that he cited said no such thing. It seemed he was trying to protect James by cowing me into silence. I'm a lesbian, i.e., a "member of the LGBTQ community" that James purports to champion. I tried to explain to NYAG officials that PGM, by its nature, targets children who defy sexed norms -- whom studies show are more likely to be gay when they grow up. PGM can reportedly leave them with sexual dysfunction, chronic genital pain, and incontinence, among all sorts of other side effects. No one in authority at NYAG showed interest in the concern that PGM may be homophobic. If Letitia James actually cared about "LGBTQ" youth then she'd research "gender" drugs and learn what they do. Instead she glibly calls the drugs "safe" and fires me for contradicting her. I've practiced public interest law for my entire 15-year career. My social circles are full of progressive lawyers. Like most Americans, they tend to be leery of PGM. But their leaders on the left treat it like a battle of good vs. evil. That makes ordinary people afraid to voice skepticism. James's behavior toward me illustrates why the public discussion of PGM is often one-sided in places like NYC -- and so strikingly different from what you hear behind closed doors. James was wrong to treat me like a pest. I was trying to warn her about red flags for fraud that I saw around PGM -- that's what she hired me to do. I was honored to serve in the consumer frauds bureau and thought my colleagues there did great work. I still do. I hope someday they'll investigate PGM providers. In the end NYAG accused me of engaging in "disruptive public speech." Unfortunately, that's not true. I haven't disrupted the Democratic elite's zombie-like devotion to PGM providers. But I'm just getting started."
Wesley Yang on X - "Glenna Goldis was a lawyer employed by the New York Attorney General's office to prosecute consumer fraud. She brought to her employer's attention her concerns that pediatric gender medicine was a form of fraud that the office should have been been investigating and prosecuting, rather than the form of safe, lifesaving, and medically necessary care that the office was falsely representing it to have been proven to be. That is to say that she provided evidence to her superiors that the office was helping to perpetrate a consumer fraud in lieu of prosecuting it. For this attempt to carry out the job for which she had been hired, the NY attorney general fired her."
Wesley Yang on X - "Thanks to action by Trump's EEOC, women no longer have to shower with men as a condition of their employment Yes, Biden's EEOC mandated that women had to shower with men as a condition of employment. Didn't you know that forbidding women from drawing a boundary between themselves and any man who says he is a woman was declared to be "the civil rights movement of the 21st century" and that the Democratic party is pledged to reimpose this prohibition on every school, workplace, public office, and public accommodation in America the instant it reclaim power? When Democrats say "we can't throw trans people under the bus!" this is what they are referring to."
Asking midwives to record the sexual orientation of newborns is sickening - "It’s the first and most fundamental piece of information to be recorded about us the moment we’re born. Alongside our parentage, our weight, our length and our head circumference – it’s crucial to our identity. So it’s hard to imagine the bafflement of staff at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust when they discovered – during a recent training session for the trust’s new software system – that there was no option of recording a newborn’s biological sex on the registration forms. One midwife was brave enough to blow the whistle, saying staff are “worried” by the forms, but don’t want to raise the issue with NHS managers. Because that’s how effective the gender warriors have been with their intimidation tactics. Like the fearful subjects in The Emperor’s New Clothes, nobody wants to be the one to point out the obvious and say, “But the child is either a boy or a girl!” It gets worse. Whilst there is no obligation to record biological sex on the new American-made software, the default settings do include a form asking for a newborn’s gender identity, pronouns and sexual orientation. You know, alongside the time and date... It would be funny if this were all part of some inconsequential, narcissistic little game that people liked to play in their spare time. Only this new software is being used in at least 10 NHS trusts. Oh, and the “upgrade” cost £450m... On the subject of dignity, you should know that the new patient form on the system also includes an “organ inventory”. This reduces babies to pieces of meat, even if it does mean that one can record whether they have a penis or a vagina. If only there were a simpler way of describing the human beings in possession of those two things."
Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: Dept of Education has determined that San Jose State University VIOLATED Title IX for retaliating against female athletes who spoke out after they were forced to compete and share a locker room with Blaire Fleming, a MALE pretending to be a woman. The university has 10 days to comply with a series of agreements, which include:
- Implementing Biology-based policies
- Separating facilities based on sex
- Restore titles and records to female athletes who were retaliated against
- Issue apologies to any teams who forfeited due to having a male player
If they do not comply, they risk facing "imminent enforcement action.""
Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن on X - "People who go all-in on Transgenderism do not like detransitioners because their existence presents a very uncomfortable trilemma. Either
• this girl was a boy but now she's a girl again, in which case gender identity is very unstable, less stable than one's sexed body, and making permanent changes to one's child on the basis of something that might be merely a phase is unjustifiable, or
• this girl was never a boy, because she was completely mistaken about her gender identity for years, mistakes about which are supposed to be impossible, since "trans kids know who they are", or
• this girl was never a boy, because gender identity isn't a reality; Transgenderism as a whole is entirely false
The justification for permanent body alteration to conform the sexed by to the gender identity supposes that "gender identity" is REAL, KNOWN WITH CERTAINTY, and STABLE. Detransitioners prove by their very existence that it isn't at least one of those."
The cope is that detransitioners only detransition because of transphobia
Jury awards detransitioner $2 million in historic medical-malpractice lawsuit vs. psychologist and surgeon. (MSN) : r/psychologyofsex - "The number one consistent thing I’ve seen from videos of detransitioners going public is they didn’t tell their doctor because they viewed them as a bad person for doing the surgery, or they tried to talk to their doctor about the problems and were shut down and cut off from communication."
Explaining the supposedly low detrans rate
Gender Identity Disorders Among Young People in Germany: Prevalence and Trends, 2013–2022: An Analysis of Nationwide Routine Insurance Data - "In 72.4% of the persons with an F64 diagnosis in 2022 (n = 24 624), at least one additional psychiatric diagnosis was coded (males: 67.3%; females: 75.6%). The most common diagnoses were depressive disorders (males: 49.3%, females: 57.5%), anxiety disorders (23.5%/34.0%), emotionally unstable personality disorder of the borderline type (12.1%/17.6%), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders (12.7%/12.6%), and post-traumatic stress disorders (9.9%/13.6%).. In the longitudinal cohort (n = 7885, 47.1% in the age group 20–24 years; 37.7% male), only 36.4% still had a confirmed F64 diagnosis after five years and diagnosis persistence was below 50% in all age groups (range 27.3% [15–19-year-old females] to 49.7% [20–24-year-old males])."
Yet more evidence on "trans" people having other mental health conditions, as well as evidence that after 5 years, 64% detransition. But we will still be told that the detransition rate is 1-2% based on a shit study of trans people (i.e. where you wouldn't expect detransitioners)
Sex offender who identifies as transgender exposes himself to kids again at Va. school - "Richard Kenneth Cox, 58, is now facing multiple charges in Arlington County, including several counts of intentionally making an obscene display of his private parts in a public place or in a place where others were present plus loitering within 100 feet of a high school after having been convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children."
Lyndsey Fifield on X - "This convicted (violent) repeat pedophile was caught and arrested *at the Planet Fitness location I cancelled my membership from last year because of their refusal to protect women* But our Soros-backed DA Steve Descano DROPPED THE CHARGES because the pedo is *now* a “woman.” He was exposing himself to women and children in locker rooms... but it's okay because *he now identifies as transgender!*"
Prof. Gary Francione on X - "It's not rocket science. Trans ideology is misogynistic because it seeks to erase women as a sex class. It is homophobic because it maintains that homosexuality is a matter of same-gender attraction and not same-sex attraction. Don't be confused by postmodernist jargon."
Independent Women’s Law Center and Broad Coalition File Brief to Protect Parents’ Rights Against Secret ‘Transition’ in School - "Independent Women’s Law Center and a coalition of 65 other amici filed an amicus brief in Mirabelli v. Bonta, supporting parental rights and urging the United States Supreme Court to put a stop to a California school district’s secret social gender transition policy. In this case, parents and teachers challenged a school district policy that required teachers to deceive parents about their child’s gender transition at school. One of the families who brought this challenge did not find out that their daughter was being treated as a boy at school until after their daughter attempted suicide. The federal district court in San Diego held for the parents and teachers and permanently enjoined the state from imposing secret social transition policies on teachers and parents. Despite the school’s clear violation of parental rights, the Ninth Circuit stayed the district court’s injunction."
Weird. We keep being told that schools aren't transitioning children
Benjamin Ryan on X - "According to Dr. Eithan Haim’s malicious prosecution lawsuit against Texas Children’s, Dr. Kristy Rialon, a pediatric gender surgeon at the hospital, falsely accused him of rape to retaliate against his exposing the hospital as continuing to provide gender-transition treatments after publicly stating it had stopped. @EithanHaim’s suit also alleges Dr. Rialon did this to push for DoJ to prosecute him. Dr. Rialon, the Daily Wire reports, “posted a number of ‘anonymous defamatory reviews’ on Haim’s public WebMD profile while he was still an anonymous whistleblower and his identity had not been made public. Her reviews, according to the lawsuit, ‘accused him of mutilating and raping his patients.’ In one post, she pretended to be a female patient who had been raped by Haim. “Her posts, according to the lawsuit, were intended to encourage the government’s prosecution as well as punish Haim for ‘exposing Texas Children’s Hospital’s deception and her complicity in the misconduct.’ Rialon admitted to the FBI that she posted these claims against Haim under fake names, the lawsuit notes.”"
Darren Grimes on X - "The Harry Potter series is a masterclass in why we shouldn’t bow to "easy, polite lies." Rowling didn’t just write about magic; she wrote about the grit required to tell the truth when the Ministry and the media are trying to gaslight you into silence. It’s the ultimate irony. The same people who cheered for Harry standing up to Umbridge are now the ones acting like the High Inquisitor—demanding we ignore our own eyes and ears to keep the peace. They want us to believe that biological reality is a "hateful" inconvenience rather than a fundamental truth. Bravery isn't found in Hollywood actors following a script to stay in the good books of the liberal elite. It’s found in a woman willing to risk her reputation to say that sex is real and it matters."
Canada one of the world's last holdouts on transing children - "As democracies around the world pull back on the tenets of youth gender medicine, Canada is emerging as one of the last countries still hewing to the idea that minors should be prescribed hormones and even surgery to affirm a self-described gender identity... This follows on a November decision by New Zealand to slap strict new controls on hormones prescribed for the “purpose of puberty suppression for children or adolescents.” The country’s Ministry of Health has previously stated that there was a “lack of good quality evidence to back the effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers.” The Australian state of Queensland similarly banned puberty blockers in January, with the state’s premier framing it as a reaction to “troubling allegations” that a sexual health clinic had been caught distributing unauthorized hormone therapies to 42 children. When an Australian court ordered a freeze on the puberty blocker directive, Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls simply ordered it again. All the while, countries across Europe have been systematically pulling back on policies that prioritized immediate hormone treatment for children expressing gender dysphoria. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, among others, have all tightened the requirements under which a child can be prescribed puberty blockers. In Italy, for instance, the country’s national bioethics committee recommended in 2024 that puberty blockers only be prescribed after “psychotherapy” or “psychiatric interventions” had failed to alleviate feelings of gender dysphoria. That same year, the U.K. released the Cass Review, a comprehensive government inquiry into the country’s system of “gender services” care for minors. One of the report’s most influential findings was that the routine prescription of puberty blockers had been pursued based solely on the conclusions of a “single Dutch study.” There was “very limited evidence” the hormones improved mental health, despite plenty of risk that they were imposing “longer-term neuropsychological consequences,” the report found. Puberty blockers for children have been subject to a blanket British ban ever since, with the country’s Department of Health and Social Care declaring that they are an “unacceptable safety risk for children and young people.” Even in France, which maintains relatively liberal access to puberty blockers, the official position of the Académie nationale de médecine is that they should only be a last resort. A 2022 communique by the academy stated that “psychological supports,” not drug treatments, should be the first treatment offered to any child “expressing a desire to transition.” The statement also urged parents to be wary of trans identities being the product of social contagion. The academy warned that “excessive consultation of social networks” was “responsible, for a very important part, of the growing sense of gender incongruence.” In Canada, by contrast, virtually every health body and government agency continues to defend a policy of permitting children of any age to obtain hormone therapies with minimal oversight. Often, these therapies are framed as being completely safe and even reversible. The Canadian Paediatric Society, most notably, explicitly dismissed all of the conclusions of the Cass Review, and continues to recommend an “affirming approach” to gender dysphoric youth. Under the most recent version of their guidelines, published in June 2023, symptoms such as “a strong dislike of one’s sexual anatomy” and “a strong preference for playmates of the other gender” are among a list of markers that may warrant a diagnosis of gender dysphoria requiring a course of “gender-affirming hormone therapy.” Health Canada’s official guidelines similarly break with conclusions in both Europe and the U.S. that puberty blockers carry both side-effects and long-term consequences. “Puberty suppression is reversible, as puberty restarts when a person stops taking puberty-blocking medications,” reads a Government of Canada website entitled “how to access gender-affirming care.” The only jurisdiction in Canada that has broken with the “affirmation” approach is Alberta, which in 2024 banned “hormone therapies to minors for the treatment of gender dysphoria or gender incongruence,” as well as “sex reassignment surgery on minors.” The Canadian Medical Association has not only opposed the action, but has funded litigation to block it... “When a government bans specific treatments, it interferes with a doctor’s ability to empower patients to choose the best care possible,” said association president Joss Reimer."
Weird how left wingers cheer on the banning of "conversion therapy", female genital cutting and the use of ivermectin for covid
Mia Hughes on X - "The Tale of Two Contagions
In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood. This was an entirely new patient population. Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases. The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire. Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness. Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger. And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time. Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier. And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched. Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact. And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral. The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans. And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans. Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness. Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm. And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past."
Wesley Yang on X - "We have had prior contagions of sociogenic mental illness in the past. But none had the medical, legal, cultural, educational, corporate, and governmental establishments of the Western world propagating them, corrupting science to validate them, deploying coercive power to suppress the speech of those who criticized them and force acquiescence with them, brainwashing children by the millions to affirm them, and by the hundreds of thousands into becoming ensnared in them. This situation is without precedent and involved a collapse of the moral and epistemic integrity of virtually every system designed to ensure that policy is guided by reason and reality."
