To end transgender madness, make the ghouls who pushed these surgeries pay the price

This is how it ends.

A New York jury has awarded a detransitioner $2 million in the first medical malpractice suit of its kind to go to trial.

The six-member Westchester County panel found that psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin disregarded “standards of care and procedural guardrails by pressuring” their patient, Fox Varian, then 15, “into addressing gender dysphoria with permanent surgery.”

Varian, now 22, is a biological girl who believed herself to be a boy for a time in her teenage years.

She went through a gruesome, unnecessary double mastectomy when she was too young to consent.

Her lawyers argued that her psychologist planted the idea of transitioning, and the impressionable teen went along with it.

Varian’s mother testified she was afraid her daughter would commit suicide if she did not relent and allow the surgery to proceed.

It’s been a common guilt trip laid on so many parents of gender-confused children: “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?”

Varian’s mom was made to feel as if she had no choice.

How many other families have struggled with similar decisions for fear of being labeled “anti-trans” or of sparking a showdown with their kid’s school for not “affirming” a child’s delusions?

Varian’s big monetary win will surely inspire similar lawsuits.

And it should.

From 2016 through 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services estimated, approximately 3,700 American adolescents aged 12 to 18 underwent surgical interventions due to gender dysphoria diagnoses.

That’s a huge number of kids being convinced to do the absolutely impossible — subject themselves to invasive surgery in a misguided attempt to overturn biological reality.

Now every one of them has a strong legal basis for arguing that they were forced into a giant, life-altering, horrible error.

And that’s just surgery: Other interventions can do long-lasting harm, too.

Maia Poet, a detransitioner who believed she was a boy as a young teen, talks about the pain and agony she must endure today because of “breast binding” — a procedure that trans advocates tout as “temporary,” in which a girl flattens her breasts close to her body with a tight-fitting medical device to mimic the look of a boy’s chest.

“Now at 26, I live in pain,” Poet posted on X. “My upper body is permanently disfigured. Schools still secretly give these dangerous medical devices to little girls.”

The mother of a Maine teenager who got such a chest binder at her school has taken her case to the US Supreme Court, after a lower court ruled that the school board could not be found liable for the lifelong harm done to her daughter.

Or how about hormone therapy, which the “gender affirmation” crowd claims to be a “harmless” intervention far less serious than surgery.

A 2024 study out of Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, found that 95% of women who took testosterone and other drugs to try to look and sound like men experience bladder and bowel problems, “pelvic floor dysfunction” and “postmenopausal” symptoms like urinary “leakage” in their 20s. 

“I am still suffering from the consequences of being prescribed testosterone when I was a teenager for my ‘gender dysphoria’,” posted Prisha Mosley, another detransitioner who is suing her doctors for her ordeal.

“I’ve been off of it for a few years now, and I’m still dealing with debilitating pelvic and vaginal atrophy, and other side effects too,” she wrote. “I wasn’t warned.”

So much damage done to children and young people by doctors who should have known better — all in the name of the fantasy that biological sex is something they can change.

Fox Varian’s win should open the floodgates on a wave of similar cases.

A mania gripped the medical establishment and a large swath of our society over the last decade, and lawsuits like Varian’s are necessary to break the fever.

Nothing else has worked.

Brave young people like Chloe Cole have stepped forward to explain the pain and agony of the children who have gone through these ghoulish procedures — and yet they continue.

Whistleblowers like Jamie Reed have sacrificed their careers to expose the rushed diagnoses and horrific side effects seen at top transgender clinics — and yet they continue.

Governments have sought to ban or restrict this freakish experimentation on kids — and yet it continues.

Perhaps hitting those responsible where it hurts — in their wallets — will turn the tide.

We’re out of options.

It’s up to the courts to make these fiends pay a price for imposing their twisted ideology on our kids.

Karol Markowicz is the host of the “Karol Markowicz Show” and “Normally” podcasts.