Exciting news last week for Christians and conservatives who are concerned about children being bullied into self-mutilation. A great victory has been achieved. The first ever lawsuit made by a detransitioner has succeeded. I’ve blogged before that the medical personnel who do these treatments and surgeries are only interested in one thing: MONEY. And when you take away their MONEY, a funny thing happens. They stop transing kids.
Here’s the story from The Federalist:
On Jan. 30, a New York State jury awarded a 22-year-old woman, Fox Varian, $2 million in damages for her 2019 “gender-affirming” double mastectomy, which she came to deeply regret. She was 16 years old at the time. This settlement against Varian’s psychologist and plastic surgeon is the first legal judgment imposed upon those performing such mutilations.
According to this article in the New York Post, the people who lost the lawsuit pushed bullied the parents with threats that the child would self-end:
Psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin were held responsible in Westchester County Supreme Court in White Plains for ignoring standards of care and procedural guardrails by pressuring the minor into addressing gender dysphoria with permanent surgery, the jury decided.
Lawyers for Varian pointed the finger at Einhorn, saying he “drove the train” and was “putting the idea in Fox’s head” that she needed to change her gender with surgery, according to the report.
Varian’s mother, Claire Deacon, testified that she was against the surgery, but consented to it out of fear her daughter would commit suicide, according to the outlet.
“This man was just so emphatic, and pushing and pushing, that I felt like there was no good decision,” Deacon told The Epoch Times.
That’s the standard approach, because they have to get that insurance money somehow! According to the Federalist article, there are at least 5,200 teen girls who have had their breasts removed by adults who got paid to do it. And there are 27 other detransitioner lawsuits still waiting on a verdict. All it takes is one win, though and suddenly the medical associations that approved of these surgeries are changing their tunes.
The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) reports:
In a watershed moment, on February 3, 2026, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued an official position statement recommending that a key step of “gender-affirming” care—surgical intervention—be delayed until the patient is “at least 19 years old.” The recommendation against performing gender-affirming procedures in minors extends to all types of gender-related surgeries, including breast/chest, genital, and facial surgeries. However, the ASPS statement goes much farther than merely advising surgeons to delay surgery. It raises serious evidentiary and ethical concerns about the entire gender-affirming treatment pathway for youth, including social transition, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones.
But that’s not the only one, here’s another, reported in the far-left Washington Post: (archived)
The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend transition surgeries primarily for adults but say adolescents can receive them on a case-by-case basis.
The AMA appears to now be taking a more cautious stance. A spokesperson for the AMA said Tuesday that “the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement” but that it agrees with ASPS that surgeries for minors should be generally deferred to adulthood in the absence of clear evidence.
Was the AMA’s previous stance on transing the kids based in scientific evidence? Well, the AMA’s previous stance contradicted years of research I’ve covered on this blog, including:
- New study: Risks associated with pediatric “gender-affirming” care
- New study: Transgender surgeries linked to suicidal ideation, depression
- New study: gender-affirming surgery associated with suicide attempts
- Pre-ban study: 53% of mothers with gender-confused boys have mental illness
- New study: Significant parallels found between anorexia and gender dysphoria
- New study: most children suffering from gender confusion grow out of it
- New study: Mental health issues persist after receiving “gender-affirming” treatment
- Study: “social contagion” is a major factor in teen and young adult gender dysphoria
- New study: psychotherapy improves mental health of autistic teens with gender dysphoria
- Controversial study on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and transgenderism re-published
The UK’s Cass Review, which I discussed in my May 2025 post linked above, is a gold-standard analysis. It found no consistent mental health benefits from puberty blockers or hormones, yet the AMA pushed these treatments regardless. I’m blogging about the gold standard studies, but AMA people thought that ordinary people were not following the science. We are. Christians and conservatives bound our worldviews off of what science tells us. We are not being swayed by Big Medicine and Big LGBT to suppress the science. The AMA argued gender-affirming care reduces distress, but the Cass Review and other studies show no consistent mental health benefits.
I just think it’s amazing that these medical doctors who threaten parents with their child self-ending and bragged about how transing the kids was “a big money-maker” are now suddenly very cautious. All it took was a 2-million-dollar lawsuit and suddenly, scientific evidence matters after all. And that’s what Christians had been saying all along – let the scientific evidence inform our decisions about moral issues. It shouldn’t just be be a situation of wanting insurance money.
Many Christians think that people who reject Christianity can be trusted to make good moral decisions. “Of course my doctor would never mutilate my child for money” Christian think. “No need for me to study and make a case against abortion, same-sex marriage, and transgenderism”. Well, not so fast.
When a person kicks God out of his or her worldview, it actually does have a big effect on how that person sees morality. It doesn’t matter that the doctor looks nice, dresses nice, sounds nice, and has fancy degrees. When God is gone from a doctor’s worldview, you cannot expect them to behave morally. And that should be a concern to all Christians and conservatives, because we all get old one day. We will all have to rely on health care providers.
We judge too much by appearances. We think a rich doctor must be morally good. It’s just not the case. It’s our job as Christians to challenge everyone to think more closely about moral issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, etc. We have to study to get the evidence and then we have to not care about the loss of reputation.
Rose and I did a couple of Knight and Rose Show episodes about this topic. One with Frank Turek and one with Jay Richards, so check them out. And check out my previous posts.
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