US Detransitioner wins medical malpractice lawsuit and receives $2 million

So, it’s probably a small thing, but maybe the best way to get more coverage of this is for as many of us as possible to head over to the Substack - the more eyes there are on it, the more it could encourage other reporters to cover this stuff. Sunlight always helps!

Trump removed the statute of limitation which was a very wise move. That will end Insurance company involvement.

This is good news - and why hasn't it been more widely covered?

I do wonder how it's going to play out here. The limitation period in the UK is three years, which isn't very long - realistically, it means you're going to have to regret your surgery within the space of about a year or 18 months and then get your act together to consult a lawyer and take action.

And it's not easy to win a medical negligence claim. You really have to prove that the surgeon or other medical professional behaved in a way that is completely unreasonable, or breaches an accepted standard of care (people can google the exact wording!) You can't really say "Cutting a woman's breasts off to cure psychological distress is self-evidently completely unethical and ludicrous", even though that is the case. To make a successful case, you have to be supported by other doctors operating in the same field, which in this scenario would be other gender medicine doctors - and obviously those people already accept the insane premise that it's OK to cut off a young woman's breasts.

So I'm not necessarily confident of there being a tide of successful medical negligence claims here. I think we probably need to find another way of challenging the very legality of gender medicine, but I don't know what that might be.

I don't understand the statute of limitations. In the UK, rugby players are starting to sue their doctors for allowing them to play on with concussions even if head injury symptoms manifest many many years after their playing careers ended.

Unfortunately I suspect you are right

I agree, but I would imagine she has covered herself legally and there would be no mechanism to convict her.

Yep accounting filings for listed companies drove the T too.
Its a cheap flag waver for EID but ended having employees strop over doing their jobs and expecting health insurance cover to include cosmetic surgery.

DEI is getting kicked to the curb in the US as it is costly result driven and eats into profits the salary and bonus pools being paid to CEOs. Its hard to justify multiple of average worker wage.

I don't want her sued. I want her in prison.

Money, money, money, mon-eeeee!

It's interesting, isn't it, who really holds power in society?

Let the landslide begin.

Insurance is such an effective way to change outcomes.

That's interesting, I didn't know that

Yep

Yes this is how it will stop. Not because of the harm it does to vulnerable adults and children but because of money .

To draw an analogy with another public health harm – smoking in enclosed public spaces like pubs, clubs and restaurants. For decades Public health campaigners tried to get this stopped without any success.

But as soon as there were successful legal claims from ( non smoking) workers who had developed asthma or lung cancer from exposure to smoke at work - insurers either withdrew cover or increased premiums. This happened even though most claims were settled out of court, so it didn’t set a legal precedent.

Powerful lobby groups can influence politicians and even the courts . But they have no influence over insurers .

Mengele.

Well she wouldn't be the first I've come across to spell an Irish name in an odd way. God knows what the Americans call her 😱

Yes that would be correct for Sadhbh, But not Sidhbh.
[the 'h' in Irish is not an actual letter, it is used to indicated that the preceding consonant is softened, or in the case of the 'd', not pronounced at all. The 'b' is softened to a 'v' sound.
See? It all makes perfect sense😄

'Scythe' would be a useful word for Sadhbhs - Saoirse Ronan amusingly says her name is pronounced' Saoirse, rhymes with inertia'😁

Sorry I'm doing it again😬 I'll stop this derail right now. Promise.

But 's' before a slender vowel is 'sh' in Irish, as in Síle, so it would be 'shee-uhv'.
Sadhbh has a broad vowel after the 's' so it remains an 's' sound Sa-uhv which said quickly becomes Sive

Sorry everybody for the obsessive derail, I know it's a trivial detail but..😐

Yes!

Dear god.

The point of an exclusive is it's exclusive. It doesn't stop the exclusive being accurate.

They could of course, get the fuck of AI and stop being dumb idiots and seek out the source of the original court ruling.

But that would be too much like hard work and thinking for yourself.

Like scythe? But with a ‘v’?

Unfortunately I doubt it. But hopefully people will start to get wise to the risk they're taking with her.

I'm seeing lots of 'Grok give me 3 or more reports on this from different political viewpoints' and when grok can't, it is apparently 'fake news'.

For me it's 'sigh-uvh' which 'sive' could be an approximation of