US Detransitioner wins medical malpractice lawsuit and receives $2 million

Thank you. I did search but couldnt find the clip.

That was from a Grand Rounds at Vanderbilt University Hospital.

Wasnt it Boston Hospital from which that footage came of the woman enthusing about how much money gender surgeries brought in, and how it was a growth industry?

In 2022, Boston Children’s Hospital proudly posted videos promoting “gender-affirming hysterectomies” and its own doctors claimed “refusing to get a haircut” and “plays with the opposite gender toys” were signs a young child might be transgender.

These people can't be prosecuted fast enough.

Excellent writing.

'...the one US industry even more powerfully rapacious than healthcare is litigation,.

Bring it on.

I can see why she doesn’t work for the Guardian anymore…..

I think Hadley might be the person I most consistently agree with in this world.

Thanks for sharing @Igneococcus another great piece from Hadley 'getting it right again' Freeman.

Hadley Freeman's comment in the Times today:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/7d4bf10a-4796-4899-a403-979bd646a330?shareToken=8e80d4d48025f2bf10be62cd33cc5d52

Jo Bartosch alludes to the "experts" on the HRA research ethics committee, one of them is a 20-something trainee solicitor with an interest in human rights. Exactly how much expertise does she bring to the committee? If that is the level of specialist knowledge & experience we can expect from RECs, their only true function is to burnish committee members' CVs.

Jo Bartosch has written about it in Spiked

https://archive.ph/jbSDf

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/05/trans-surgery-is-medical-malpractice/

She highlights something that concerns me

This argument reveals something uncomfortable. The problem here is not merely that the wrong box was ticked – as the jury appears to have concluded. The verdict leaves open the possibility that, had Varian been funnelled to the ‘right’ specialist using the preferred diagnostic language, where she would still have likely been affirmed and medicalised, there would be no legal consequences.

I also just spoke with a knowledgeable source who helped me update my spreadsheet of detransitioner lawsuits. Note that the two that are highlighted in yellow are lawuits waged by family members on behalf of someone who died after receiving gender-transition treatment. So it looks like there are actually only 27 detransitioner lawsuits. The Towe case involves a suicide and the Dunlap case involves a biological male who died of a pulmonary embolism after taking spironolactone.
This source told me that the soonest we will see another detransitioner trial is Luka Hein’s, against the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in either January or February of 2027. Then comes Chloe Cole’s, against Kaiser Permanente, in April 2027.
https://benryan.substack.com/p/the-sealed-case-files-from-the-2?

Indeed. What if that crucial apostrophe were to go astray? 🫣

Very good but I'm not onboard with the who're contraction.

Too lazy to think more deeply than the fashionable mantras that got them social media likes, too arrogant to look at evidence from anyone outside their political bubble

What a long, long list of people fit that description.

JKR has dropped a banger. The story has hit the Hew York Times too and other outlets. The impact of this win has only just started.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

A young detransitioner, Fox Varian, has won $2 million damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit, in which she sued the psychologist and surgeon who approved her for a double mastectomy, aged 16. Varian's mother testified that she'd been against the surgery, but was pressured into agreeing because she'd been told that unless her daughter transitioned she was likely to commit suicide. As the floodgates open, and more and more detransitioners sue the clinicians who subjected them to an unregulated medical experiment, gender identity activists will almost certainly continue to ignore any evidence that fails to support their preferred narrative. They'll keep insisting that hardly any transitioned people regret their irreversible procedures, that gender clinicians know exactly what they're doing, that surgeries, cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers are of proven benefit and that minors who're denied these treatments will to kill themselves. All of this is a lie. Speaking at the WPATH conference in 2021, British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal admitted 'we are doing procedures here where we don’t have outcome data.' A woman from Utah said she felt gender clinicians like her were making it up as they went along: 'Because I feel like we’re all just winging it, you know? And which is okay, you’re winging it too. But maybe we can just, like, wing it together.'
(https://thefp.com/p/were-all-just-winging-it-what-the)

This will go down in history as one of the worst medical scandals of all time. Adults inside and outside the medical profession sold troubled young people like Varian the idea that all of their complex trauma would be resolved by removing healthy body parts. As more and more detransitioners arrive in court, the public will learn the full extent of the harm done to kids in the name of an ideology. Clinicians performing these 'treatments' will go down in history as barbarous activists who betrayed a sacred oath: to do no harm. But we should never forget how many people outside the medical profession urged these young people on, gleefully assuring them that anyone advising caution was an evil bigot. There are people in elitist professions like publishing and academia, not to mention politicians and celebrities with young fan bases, who did all they could to champion the idea of gender identity, and kept pushing it even as the evidence of harm mounted. They're just as culpable as the clinicians. Too lazy to think more deeply than the fashionable mantras that got them social media likes, too arrogant to look at evidence from anyone outside their political bubble, they've slurred whistleblowers and attacked anyone with valid questions. In doing so, they've created a cultural climate without which this appalling tragedy could not have taken place. Never forget, because only by learning the lesson can we stop this happening again.

Statute of limitations can be effectively made irrelevant if there's fraudulent concealment / misrepresentation. It can also be mitigated by the facts that the subject of care was a minor, i.e. the clock might not start ticking until they're adults.

Mail there are now lots of coverage of this

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15521595/Young-woman-breasts-cut-teenager-live-boy-wins-2million.html

@WomenAreNotForSale There's a lot out there on WPATH, Reduxx.info have done some deep & deeply distressing dives; reduxx.info & this scamper through the "WPATH Files" is useful, if a tad breathless & patchy; dailycaller.com/2024/05/14/wpath-tapes-gender-doctors-recordings-sex-changes/

This full length Substack article landed in my inbox an hour ago:
https://benryan.substack.com/p/i-report-for-the-free-press-a-legal

I have yet to read it but will do and come back later

ETA unfortunately it seems to be pay-walled - anyone have a subscription?

Good. Next, someone do WPATH.

While that's on GB News, it's from the Free Speech Nation programme which I do like and am happy to make an exception for.

I know GB News is not a Mumsnet favourite.. but the news is getting out
Maya Forstater tonight.

Thanks for sharing. A very encouraging summary of the case and its implications.

Useful article from a journalist with a legal background who has written bestsellers on medical malpractice in the States. This is the beginning of the end in the US. It will take many years though. Big Gender is not powerful than tobacco or opioids.

The First Verdict Has Landed in the Pediatric Gender Medicine Scandal
After years of regulatory failure, the civil justice system delivers a warning shot that could reshape an entire medical industry.
Gerald Posner Award-winning investigative journalist | 13x author (PHARMA, CASE CLOSED, MENGELE, GOD'S BANKERS | Pulitzer finalist )

The case did not ask jurors to decide broad ideological questions about gender medicine. Instead, it focused narrowly on whether these specific clinicians exercised appropriate medical judgment in this particular case. The jury concluded they did not.

That distinction matters legally. But the implications extend far beyond this single plaintiff.

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....

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.
https://www.justthefacts.media/p/the-first-verdict-has-landed-in-the