Quote:A woman who received a double mastectomy at the age of 16 under the guise of transgender-related healthcare was just awarded $2 million in the first successful medical-malpractice lawsuit brought by a destransitioner...

“This case is not about regret,” Deutsch said, but about healthcare professionals who chose to “empower” a patient instead of treat her. Einhorn and Chin should have ensured that Varian’s other psychological conditions, including anorexia, depression, ADHD, autism, and body dysmorphia were “well-controlled” before approving the surgery, Deutsch added, according to the Epoch Times reporting.

Dozens of detransitioner lawsuits have been filed, according to Ryan, who tracks the cases. Varian’s was the first to win a judgement.

Quote:A New York jury has delivered a landmark verdict against two medical practitioners who approved a teenage girl to undergo irreversible “gender-affirming” surgery without adequate psychological care – a decision with far-reaching implications for the affirmative model of care for vulnerable young people with gender dysphoria...

This verdict is the first successful jury trial in the United States brought by a detransitioner against medical professionals involved in paediatric gender medicine.

While other cases have been settled out of court or dismissed on procedural grounds, this decision represents the first of hopefully many instances in which the rapid medical "affirmation" of minors is rejected as best medical practice.

Importantly, the jury’s finding makes clear that clinicians cannot rely on contested ideological frameworks to shield themselves from legal accountability...

Women’s Forum Australia has long warned that adolescent girls – particularly those experiencing mental ill-health, trauma, and neurodivergency are significantly overrepresented among those being pushed onto harmful medical pathways that fail to address their underlying needs.

The removal of healthy breasts from teenage girls is not a neutral or reversible intervention. It permanently alters the body, removes sexual and reproductive tissue, and carries lifelong physical and psychological consequences. The Varian verdict affirms what many detransitioners have been saying for years: that the politicisation of healthcare resulting in affirmation-only practices has replaced careful diagnosis, evidence-based care, and safeguarding.

Quote:Understanding the reasons some transgender people quit treatment is key to improving it, especially for the rising number of minors seeking to medically transition, experts say. But for many researchers, detransitioning and regret have long been untouchable subjects.

Quote:The Trump administration has ordered the National Institutes of Health to study the physical and mental health effects of undergoing gender transition, according to an internal NIH memo obtained by NPR.

The directive was shared with NPR by two current NIH staffers who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution. It is from acting NIH Director Mark Memoli, and says the NIH must study the impact of "social transition and/or chemical and surgical mutilation" among children who transition. Specifically, the White House wants the NIH to study "regret" and "detransition" among children and adults who have transitioned.

Quote:[...] [S]ome people argue that previous research on trans regret and related issues have been poorly done and is outdated.

"We are starting to see much greater numbers of young people who are seeing that they went down the wrong path for them and they're now left with irreversible changes to their body and they no longer identify as transgender," says Evgenia Abbruzzese, the co-founder of the group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. "But they are left with these permanent effects."

She adds: "There are a lot of negative impacts of transition. And regret is definitely one of them," she says. "It's a very important area of medicine to study."

Quote:"The research on detransition is very useful, it's a very important area," said Michael Biggs, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. "This is an understudied population to collect systematic data on."

Quote:My name is Helena, and as of this writing I’m a 23-year-old woman who, as a teenager, believed I was transgender. In the years since detransitioning (stopping testosterone treatment and no longer seeing myself as transgender), I’ve become interested in exploring why, in the last decade, nearly every English-speaking country has seen a meteoric rise in adolescents believing they are transgender and pursuing cosmetic medical and surgical interventions. Here, I’d like to go over how and why I came to see myself as transgender, the process of transitioning, and the events leading up to and following my detransition. 

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We are a group of detransitioned and re-identified women who have been doing grassroots organizing since 2013.
We oppose collusion with the right-wing. We do not consent to our stories being co-opted by an anti-LGBT and anti-woman agenda.

Some Reasons Why it Matters:

Feminists in the Crosshairs - Not Just "Reaching Across the Aisle"

"We may think we are engaged on a single-issue basis with these groups, especially when they appropriate secular, even feminist language, but we are also in their crosshairs. The fact that they've shifted their attention, for the moment, to trans-women should fool nobody. Gender identity is a wedge issue against the whole package of what is known, in terms of international law, as 'SOGI - sexual orientation and gender identity - and against everything represented by the left, including anti-racism and feminism."

 - "Women and the Religious Right" by Jayne Egerton

LGBT Rights

"While we believe it protects the well-being of all patients for negligent medical providers to be held accountable, any relationship formed with [far-right organizations] assists them in their agenda of eroding the autonomy of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and gender non-conforming youth [and adults] by legitimizing conversion therapy based on Christian fundamentalism."

• Statement adapted from "Detransitioned Women Resist the ADF" website

We Speak for Ourselves Better Than They Can

"You may have seen detransition as a topic in the news. Distorted and sensationalized, our existence as detransitioned women is either presented as the ultimate tragedy or decried as a conservative myth, depending on what political agenda needs furthering that day. ... Being treated as ideologically inconvenient aberrations who are mistaken about the meaning of our experiences by liberal allies is not comparable to the incredibly well-funded, ongoing attacks on our basic civil rights (as women and, for many of us, as lesbians) by conservatives."
 - Detransition: Beyond Before and After by Max Robinson

Quote:Carol has been a woman, a man and is a woman again. Her story has lessons for trans medicine