January 31, 2026

"A jury on Jan. 30 found a psychologist and surgeon liable for malpractice after they supported and performed breast removal surgery..."

"... on a 16-year-old girl who at the time identified as transgender. Fox Varian, now 22 and no longer identifying as transgender, was awarded $2 million in damages.... The jury found that in many respects the surgeon and psychologist had skipped important steps when evaluating whether she should go forward with the surgery and had not adequately communicated with each other. These missteps were a 'departure from the standard of care,' they decided."

42 comments:

chickelit said...

Not to mention a violation of the physician’s first oath.

Beasts of England said...

And what about the minor’s parent(s)? Wasn’t their consent required?

But, good for Fox - it’s a start.

Mason G said...

"These missteps were a 'departure from the standard of care,' they decided."

Yeah, let's call it a 'departure from the standard of care'. Don't want to upset normal people by calling it what it actually is.

Eva Marie said...

Criminals who should all be in jail. Every single person who approved and/or performed this type of surgery on minors. 6 months minimum.

n.n said...
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exhelodrvr1 said...

And the parents?

n.n said...

All homosexuals are transgender. Not all transgender are homosexuals, some are sims through surgical, medical, or grooming corruption. The majority of dysphoria is correlated with boys and girls feeling confused or dissatisfied with themselves while passing through puberty. It will pass. Dreams of Herr Mengele is a wicked, misguided solution with forward-looking administration benefits.

Enigma said...

Sue every one of these 'professionals' into bankruptcy.

Pull their medical licenses and ensure they never prescribe or operate ever again.

Put their faces on posters, and retell their story along with the story of Josef Mengele.

Ice Nine said...

And the floodgates swing open... Good.

mccullough said...

$2 million seems meager

Christopher B said...

Re the parents, please remember the threat "you can have a live ---- or a dead ----"

wendybar said...

Good for her. Because it is so Progressive to butcher children.

n.n said...

A minority will entertain selfie-abortive ideation regardless... or perhaps hecause they experience an epiphany. A small number will entertain abortive ideation of others.

That said, mitigating progress one baby... step at a time.

Jim Gust said...

Good news story of the day. Her damages likely exceed $2 million, but it's a start. All the surgeons who perform this butchery are going to see a huge spike in their malpractice insurance.

Aggie said...

Yeah, you know how bad I think this cycle of child mutilation and is, how evil? I think it's so monstrous they should be locking up each and every one of these grinning vivisectionists, locking them up until they're reincarnated and hit puberty again.

cfs said...

A couple more jury verdicts and hopefully we will see an end of this cruel and barbaric practice. Maybe insurance companies will refuse to insure doctors and hospitals that perform mutilations of minors. If the victims start adding school administrators, counselors, and teachers to their complaints, maybe they'll stop pushing this crap on children in schools.

And adult children who "transitioned" as a minor may start suing their parents as well. Many mothers pushed their children into these delusions in order to be a part of the "in crowd" at their reading/wine club.

Just an old country lawyer said...

Someone needs to bring suit in Alabama where they awarded $4 million in punitives for a bad paint job wrongfully concealed by BMW. Think what a good plaintiff's lawyer could do with these facts.

Disparity of Cult said...

Dr. K's prediction on ending this insanity is thankfully starting to happen.

Saint Croix said...

Nobody in Europe is doing this surgery, it's strictly a USA Democrat phenomenon.

Saint Croix said...

The abortion rules in Europe are always way more conservative than what the Democrats here want. Our Democrats, when it comes to abortion, are much more like the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba.

Mr. T. said...

Wonderful news. This is just begining.

Now, start filing lawsuits against all the other conspirators in the child mutilation grift cult.

The school resource workers.
Social workers.
Teachers amd their teacher unions.
Hospital admins.
School admins.
Insurance companies that cover these atrocities.
University admins.

Saint Croix said...

"We don't know what a person is." Babies are killed.

"We don't know what a woman is." Tits are chopped off.

Peachy said...

Surgeon and fraud psycho did it for money and a dark f*ed up ideology.

Peachy said...

These pedo-chi com Democrat Communists want to march all the they-thems to the under 18 knife.

Big Mike said...

Beasts of England said...

And what about the minor’s parent(s)? Wasn’t their consent required?


The mother claims to have been opposed, but the psychologist wore her down, insisting that without the surgery young Fox Varian was highly to commit suicide. As a psychologist Dr. Einhorn knew how to play on the mother’s fears, and play her he did.

I’m with the commentators upthread who think $2 million is too small. We need some eight, or better yet nine-digit awards yo really kill this child transitioning abomination.

gilbar said...

it begins..
no wait; i have it.
This is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Jupiter said...

How does NR know what the jury "found"? Have juries started issuing written opinions like judges? This is BS. What the jury found was that these monsters paid each other with tax dollars to cut the tits off a sixteen-year-old girl, in order to amuse themselves and make loads of money. They couldn't throw them in prison, where they belong, or give them the death penalty, which they most definitely deserve, but they could sure as Hell take a bunch of the money away. And so they did.

Saint Croix said...

Harry Blackmun on the Hippocratic Oath:

The Hippocratic Oath. What then of the famous Oath that has stood so long as the ethical guide of the medical profession and that bears the name of the great Greek (460(?)-377(?) B. C.), who has been described as the Father of Medicine, the "wisest and the greatest practitioner of his art," and the "most important and most complete medical personality of antiquity," who dominated the medical schools of his time, and who typified the sum of the medical knowledge of the past?

The Oath varies somewhat according to the particular translation, but in any translation the content is clear...

"I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy."


No assisted suicide, no abortion. It's pretty damn clear, right? Now watch as the Supreme Court tosses the Oath out the window.

Although the Oath is not mentioned in any of the principal briefs in this case or in Doe v. Bolton, it represents the apex of the development of strict ethical concepts in medicine, and its influence endures to this day. Why did not the authority of Hippocrates dissuade abortion practice in his time and that of Rome? The late Dr. Edelstein provides us with a theory: The Oath was not uncontested even in Hippocrates' day; only the Pythagorean school of philosophers frowned upon the related act of suicide. Most Greek thinkers, on the other hand, commended abortion, at least prior to viability.

Blackmun cites Plato and Aristotle for this, citing passages where the pagan philosophers are defending the ancient Greek practice of abandoning babies to die.

For the Pythagoreans, however, it was a matter of dogma. For them, the embryo was animate from the moment of conception, and abortion meant destruction of a living being. The abortion clause of the Oath, therefore, "echoes Pythagorean doctrines," and "[i]n no other stratum of Greek opinion were such views held or proposed in the same spirit of uncompromising austerity."

Dr. Edelstein then concludes that the Oath originated in a group representing only a small segment of Greek opinion, and that it certainly was not accepted by all ancient physicians. He points out that medical writings down to Galen (A.D. 130-200) "give evidence of the violation of almost every one of its injunctions." But with the end of antiquity, a decided change took place. Resistance against suicide and against abortion became common. The Oath came to be popular. The emerging teachings of Christianity were in agreement with the Pythagorean ethic. The Oath "became the nucleus of all medical ethics," and "was applauded as the embodiment of truth." Thus, suggests Dr. Edelstein, it is "a Pythagorean manifesto, and not the expression of an absolute standard of medical conduct."

This, it seems to us, is a satisfactory and acceptable explanation of the Hippocratic Oath's apparent rigidity. It enables us to understand, in historical context, a long-accepted and revered statement of medical ethics.


And, just like that, seven attorneys on the Supreme Court destroyed the Hippocratic Oath, and released the medical profession from following it's oath to heal people, not hurt them.

Mason G said...

"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release a notice of proposed rulemaking to bar hospitals from performing sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Nearly all U.S. hospitals participate in Medicare and Medicaid and this action is designed to ensure that the U.S. government will not be in business with organizations that intentionally or unintentionally inflict permanent harm on children."

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-acts-bar-hospitals-performing-sex-rejecting-procedures-children.html

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Jupiter said...

For all the sturm and drang about the terrible things Jeffrey Epstein did to teenage girls, no one has ever suggested that he cut anybody's tits off. These people are the sickest of the sick.

buwaya said...

Michael K was right indeed. We should honor his memory.

FullMoon said...

"Christopher B said...
Re the parents, please remember the threat "you can have a live ---- or a dead ----"

1/31/26, 4:16 PM"
A friends daughter threatened several times before doing it.
She was a bi-polar adult. Possibly to punish the parents as well as to end her misery.
Frankly, the parents kinda deserved it.

Mary Beth said...

And what about the minor’s parent(s)? Wasn’t their consent required?

My first thought was, did she sue her parents too? The article says her mother was against the surgery but permitted it because she was afraid her daughter would commit suicide.

I didn't see a mention of the father, but I only skimmed the article, so I may have missed if he was mentioned.

I'm not sure what a parent is to do if a child threatens to kill themself.

Justabill said...

Good.

buwaya said...

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/01/31/california-attorney-general-sues-rady-childrens-hospital-for-curtailing-gender-affirming-care/

From Instapundit. How do you resolve such things, where the state requires you to do foolish things that create such legal risk? This sort of thing is not unique to this matter in CA btw, its why there has been such a mess with public utilities.

gadfly said...
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narciso said...

Bonta is trying to be as stupid as becerra thd previous atty general i meant evil

TaeJohnDo said...

buwaya said...
Michael K was right indeed. We should honor his memory.

Indeed. Good call, buwaya.

gadfly said...

Then there is the story of Chloe Cole from California's Central Valley, who considered herself a "tomboy" after a discussion with her pediatrician at age 12. She sought physical changes, which resulted in a double mastectomy when she was 15 after first taking puberty blockers and testosterone at age 13.

Sadly, the harder she tried to fix her dysphoria, the more depressed she became. And as often happens in the long term, dysphoria becomes a mental disease of some ilk. But Mom and Dad obviously went along for the ride, even when she did an LSD thing and decided she really was female and really liked women's clothing and she might have a child of her very own someday. And besides, turning "Christian" happened - whatever that means. So she went hunting for a law firm. The doctors were all to blame because Kaiser Permanente has lots of money. But after the lawyers took their fee off the top, her treatment costs are ongoing. Her negative dysphoric mental problem does not just go away because that is the way she thinks. Suicide has not vanished as a possibility. But when you read Wiki, her life has turned around in just two years.

gadfly said...

BTW, Chloe Cole's lawyer was San Francisco Republican politician Harmeet Dhillon, whose firm represented Trump allies before the Jan. 6 commission, including his former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Flynn, who was advised to invoke the Fifth Amendment multiple times before the commission, even when asked if he “believed in the peaceful transition of power in the United States of America.” Dhillon’s firm called Flynn’s questioning “political theater” and “harassment.” All this despite Flynn's pleading of guilt before a Federal judge.

Saint Croix said...

Imagine using plastic surgery to try to treat a mental illness. That’s what this is.

Once the Supreme Court tossed the Hippocratic Oath out the window, doctors began swearing the Oath in the original Greek! Having no idea what they were swearing to. Doing surgeries and issuing drugs on healthy patients became normalized. Want bigger tits? We can do that. Want your tits chopped off? We can do that too.

Medicine became corrupted by money. And the legal profession, which opened these floodgates, now stands to profit from it.

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