Doctor performs trans surgery on 16-year-old girl, now forced to pay huge price

A stunning precedent has been set for those medical malpractice cases that are erupting against doctors who did transgender surgery on minors, sometimes removing health breasts or other healthy body parts in their pursuit of an ideology that defies science.

A $2 million jury award.

Constitiutional expert Jonathan Turley, whose advice on those issues many times has guided Congress, said it is thought to be the “first successful lawsuit against doctors accused of malpractice over a gender transitioning surgery.”

He noted a New York jury “awarded $2 million to Fox Varian, 22, over the double mastectomy performed on her while she was a minor.”

It is psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin who were held responsible by the jury in Westchester County Supreme Court in White Plains for failing to follow standards of care followed by reasonable doctors.

He reported Varian had the “top surgery” at the age of 16 in 2019 with the consent of her mother, who said that she felt pressured into the procedure to avoid the risk of suicide.

In an interview with the Epoch Times, Claire Deacon said Einhorn insisted on the surgery: “This man was just so emphatic, and pushing and pushing, that I felt like there was no good decision.”

Varian’s lawyers pointed out doctors “overlooked co-existing issues like anxiety, depression, or family dynamics before causing ‘pain, suffering, and mental anguish of a permanent nature.'”

The award included $1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and $400,000 for future medical expenses.

Turley pointed out the case “could be a model for other lawsuits over such surgeries performed on minors” and noted there are dozens of such cases pending.

The mother had testified to jurors that she consented to the surgery because she was told her daughter, without it, “would take her own life.”

She said Einhorn “insisted her daughter was at risk of harming herself since she was a teenager with depression and gender dysphoria,” the report said.

President Donald Trump has begun moving to restrict medical procedures such as this type of surgery for minors with gender dysphoria.

The Supreme Court recently upheld a Tennessee law banning such procedures for youth.

The practice is unscientific as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the cellular level and doesn’t change.