Fox Varian was only 16 years old when a New York-based psychologist and plastic surgeon facilitated a double mastectomy to falsely “affirm” her gender identity. No one can change sex and it is deceptive to convince a child that employing opposite sex stereotypes would resolve their gender distress.

Varian sued both medical practitioners and has just been awarded $2 million in the first successful medical-malpractice lawsuit brought by a destransitioner.

Claire Deacon, Varian’s mother, was led by her daughter’s psychologist to believe that breast removal was the only way to heal Varian’s gender dysphoria, she told the jury. At first Deacon told Varian’s psychologist Kenneth Einhorn that top surgery was “never gonna happen” if she could help it.

“This man was just so emphatic, and pushing and pushing, that I felt like there was no good decision,” she said, according to an Epoch Times report. “I think it was a scare tactic: I don’t believe it was malice, I think he believed what he was saying … but he was very, very wrong.”

The idea of her 16-year-old daughter receiving a mastectomy made her “physically ill,” Deacon said. But Deacon was led to believe by Einhorn that Varian would be unhappy unless she was affirmed in her gender dysphoria. It was the “the hardest, most difficult, gut-wrenching” decision, Deacon told the jury.

Defendants Einhorn and plastic surgeon Simon Chin implied that Varian wanted the medical procedure, and was even at risk of suicide should she not receive a mastectomy. Chin’s attorney called Deacon’s consent a “critical fact” of the case, and asked jurors what might have happened to a potentially suicidal Varian had Chin refused the surgery.

At 16, Varian was still considered a minor according to the law and yet was treated as though she was capable of consenting to a life-impacting medical procedure with terrible and irreversible side effects. She was not comprehensively treated for other psychological conditions, including anorexia, depression, ADHD, autism, and body dysmorphia before being pushed into the so-called “affirmation” procedure.

According to her legal team she was not made aware of “the risks, hazards, and alternatives” before surgery.

As noted in our book Devastated: How gender ideology is tearing Australian families apart, it is exceedingly cruel and false for so-called health practitioners to ask, “Would you rather a dead daughter or a live son?”

There is no evidence or data to indicate this is a valid response by doctors. 

Children cannot consent to becoming life-long medical consumers and it is a dreadful lie to claim a human can be the opposite sex. Gender identity ideology is built on harmful lies and deception. This is the first known case of a destransitioner winning so comprehensively. It certainly won’t be the last.