A woman whose breasts were surgically removed after two brief telehealth appointments in order to affirm her "nonbinary" identity has reached at confidential settlement that may have been for $3.5 million.
The settlement underscores two key facts that everyone with a glancing familiarity of the routine practices within gender clinics knows: 1.) the WPATH standards of care are a joke that do not protect anyone from a lifetime of medicalized harm and 2.) nobody even follows them.
The second fact is why essentially every gender clinic in America is on the hook for millions in liability that will as a matter of certainty catch up with many of them over time. They will be punished for having ignored the existing "standards of care," such as they are.
The first fact is why gender medicine has always been a scam without an evidentiary basis that qualifies it as medicine rather than cult ritual masquerading as medicine and why the FTC should and will prosecute it as a form of fraud.
After many years contending with big procedural hurdles to detransitioners receiving any justice, the plaintiffs bar is receiving proof of concept that there is big money to be made in punishing a totally reckless industry grounded in systemic neglect of the most basic differential diagnosis.
So yeah, it's probably not $3.5 million, and it was a bad job by NY Post to say it (and a slip on my part to repeat it). But it was likely a very good settlement. As I understand it even larger confidential settlements have been reached.
There has only been one detransition case that has gone to trial and it yielded a $2 million jury verdict in Westchester County, NY.
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