At the beginning of the month, both the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) came out against “gender-affirming care” for minors. That move was not borne of a sudden awakening of moral consciousness and medical ethics, of course. The AMA, up until two weeks ago, was a proponent of “gender-affirming care” for minors, after all. But on February 1, detransitioner Fox Varian won a $2 million malpractice suit against her psychologist and the doctor who performed a double mastectomy on her when she was just 16 years old. Last week, The Economist said dozens of detransitioners have filed similar lawsuits, warning that the costs could “run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
This writer’s opinion is that those lawsuits don’t go far enough. The politicians and organizations who pushed and codified “gender-affirming care” should also be held accountable. Why? Because now, suddenly, they’re going to wash their hands of the damage they did, much in the way they asked for amnesty after COVID.
The Atlantic, hardly a bastion of right-wing thought, published a trans-critical article over the weekend, too.
Hellbound and Down 