you are talking about the potential for millions in payouts.
Apologies if anyone has said this before, I still have t read the whole thread. But this is why there has been such intense pressure to change guidelines by people like WPATH. Ifa clinic is adhering to an accepted standard of care then it becomes very difficult to sue.
If a clinic is not working to accepted standard of care then suing become much easier - a doctor is responsible for every prescription so if they can say ‘just following orders’ you’ve got nothing.
If it’s proven that informed consent was not correctly given, then victims’ chances of suing get much higher.
This is the worst ethical scandal I can think of in modern medicine. Thalidomide is often cited but once the evidence was put there people reacted fast. This is people actively suppressing evidence, engaging the courts to shut down discussion, and lobbying to keep it all rolling. It is quite simply the biggest medical/ethical scandal of our time.