The Gender Medicine Dam is Cracking. Will MA Schools Pay Attention?
Team Sanity scored some major points this week against gender ideology. Now it's time for schools to change.
If you, like us, have been paying attention to the absolute horror show that is “gender affirming care,” then you might already know how big the last week has been for Team Sanity (but more importantly, for gender-confused minors). In case you missed it, here’s the good news.
Detransitioner who had her breasts amputated awarded $2 million dollars in medical malpractice lawsuit.
In the first successful lawsuit of its kind, Fox Varian, now 22, had sued her psychologist and plastic surgeon for facilitating her double mastectomy when she was 16. On January 30th, she was victorious. Varian’s suit, originally filed in 2023, was one of an estimated 30 detransitioner lawsuits working their way through the legal system. This seven-figure award sends a powerful message to any medical professional who has ever glossed over a child’s other mental health diagnoses in favor of life-altering hormones or surgeries, or has looked a distraught parent in the eye and said, “Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?” Doctors are afraid of this type of settlement, and they should be. No amount of money could replace what has been taken from detransitioners, but in a world where money talks and insurance companies don’t like liability, Varian’s bravery and the jury’s decision may make other doctors think twice before they cut off a teenage girl’s healthy breasts in the name of gender ideology - and that’s a good thing.
First major medical society officially breaks ranks with gender woo.
On February 3rd, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons released an official position statement saying that they do not recommend gender dysphoria related surgical interventions for minors. From the ASPS:
“…in light of recent publications reporting very low/low certainty of evidence regarding mental health outcomes, along with emerging concerns about potential long-term harms and the irreversible nature of surgical interventions in a developmentally vulnerable population, ASPS concludes there is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents. ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”
This position statement is huge, because plastic surgery is one of the specialties that needs to be on board to do gender mutilation surgeries. Dr. Oren Ganor, the infamous gender mutilation enthusiast from Boston Childrens,’ (we wrote about one of his patients here, who underwent multiple “gender affirming” surgeries and tragically died, potentially due to complications from phalloplasty) is a plastic surgeon. So is Dr. Sibdh Gallagher, of “Yeet the Teats” and “#teetusdeletus” fame, who practices in Florida but markets her butchery online through her massive social media following. She sees patients from all of the country, many of them underage. With this position statement, doctors like Ganor and Gallagher can no longer hide behind false claims of “consensus” amongst “experts” to justify chopping off the healthy body parts of confused and vulnerable minors.
Read the ASPS’s full statement HERE or download it below.
Second major medical society (sort of) follows suit.
Shortly following the ASPS’s announcement, the American Medical Association responded to inquiries from National Review and Becker’s Hospital Review with comments that demonstrate a newfound hesitancy to wholly endorse gender surgeries for kids.
From National Review:
”The AMA said in a statement to National Review that because ‘the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement . . . the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.’”
From Becker’s Hospital Review:
”The American Medical Association, one of the largest U.S. healthcare organizations, has revised its position on gender-affirming surgeries for minors, the AMA told Becker’s in a statement shared Feb. 5.
‘The AMA supports evidence-based treatment, including gender affirming care. Currently, the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement,” the statement said. “In the absence of clear evidence, surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood. Treatment decisions should be made between the physician, patient and family based on the best medical evidence and clinical judgment.’”
These comments, while not yet formalized in a policy statement, represent a stark shift from the AMA’s previously strong support for gender surgeries for minors. The AMA has been active in opposing states that passed legislation restricting the mutilation of gender-confused kids and teens. One example, a letter written by the AMA in 2021 to governors in defense of “gender affirming care” for minors, stated the following:
“Empirical evidence has demonstrated that trans and non-binary gender identities are normal variations of human identity and expression. For gender diverse individuals, standards of care and accepted medically necessary services that affirm gender or treat gender dysphoria may include mental health counseling, non-medical social transition, gender-affirming hormone therapy, and/or gender-affirming surgeries. Clinical guidelines established by professional medical organizations for the care of minors promote these supportive interventions based on the current evidence and that enable young people to explore and live the gender that they choose. Every major medical association in the United States recognizes the medical necessity of transition-related care for improving the physical and mental health of transgender people.”
It seems that now that the consensus has crumbled, the AMA has discovered that the evidence to support the “medical necessity” of “gender-affirming surgical intervention” isn’t strong after all. While this newly discovered truth does not help girls like Fox Varian, Chloe Cole, and all of the countless survivors of teenage gender butchery (or boys like Jazz Jennings, whose stories are equally tragic), watching another major medical organization’s domino fall sends a very positive message for the future. No longer can doctors, gender clinics, counselors, school psychologists, Planned Parenthood, trans online influencers, progressive legislators, or the self-aggrandizing “If your parents don’t accept you, I’m your mother now” contingent of the rainbow mafia say that the “science is settled” and that if you question it, you’re “transphobic” - or worse - an abusive parent. The despicable manipulation of “Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter” is no longer valid. To be clear, it never was. We’ve known that for a long time. But now, we know that the ASPS and the AMA know it, too.
But now, we want to know: will Massachusetts schools pay attention to these changes?
We know that Massachusetts schools have already been complicit in lying to kids about sex and gender, and in many cases, creating or fanning the flames of the very gender confusion that could lead a child to make life-altering changes to their body. Sometimes the connection is even more overt.
We caught the Beverly Public Schools giving 9th graders “Sex Guides” that reference surgically-created vaginas. We discovered a video that promoted gender surgery being shown to 8th graders in Uxbridge.
We found out Lexington is instructing their high schoolers to “Check Out a Local Sexual Health Clinic” as an assignment (see below, then head to page 724 of the MFI Sex Ed Report to click the links for yourself!).
The Lexington lesson includes the gender mutilation clinic at Boston Children’s, BAGLY (which asks minors for their pronouns but not parental consent - see their absolutely wild intake form below), Planned Parenthood (which provides cross-sex hormones), amongst others.
Lexington also refers students to Cambridge Health Alliance, which has school based health centers (read: health centers IN THE SCHOOLS) in Cambridge, Somerville, Malden and Everett. As recently as last month, these SBHCs were advertising that they offer gender-affirming care including hormone therapy and surgery referrals for students who are 18+, plus “behavioral healthcare” (which we suspect may include other things like binders and outside referrals) for those who are younger. See the screenshot below, and click here for the whole post.
An older post invites students to make a confidential appointment to learn more about “social and medical transitioning.” See their post series “Transness Part One” and “Transness Part Two,” which promote binders, packers, and tucking underwear in addition to surgery and hormones.
These clinics are just one example of the dangers of ceding your parental responsibility for your child’s medical care to your local school. To read more about the dangers of school based health centers, see this excellent new article from parental rights advocate Kelly Schenkoske (@kellyske).
And then there’s Advocates for Youth and their curriculum, Rights, Respect, and Responsibility (the “3Rs”). This curriculum, which is free online and heavily promoted to Massachusetts schools by DESE, contains a 5th grade lesson called “It’s All About Hormones” that promotes puberty blockers (below). Puberty blockers have known side-effects and can cause permanent mental and physical impairment. It is unknown how many Massachusetts schools use this specific lesson. But since the 3Rs includes many lessons that promote gender ideology and confuse students as young as first grade about the biological nature of sex, and that confusion when reinforced leads kids down the path to the very surgeries that the ASPS and the AMA no longer uniformly stand behind, the danger to students is present whether or not that specific lesson is taught.
We could go on and on about the ways that kids and teens in Massachusetts public schools are exposed to dangerous gender ideology, and how sometimes even well-meaning teachers and administrators can function as part of the “school-to-gender-clinic-pipeline.” But we would rather focus on two big questions that, following the developments of the week, remain unanswered.
If doctors and therapists can be held financially liable for harming a gender-confused child through their advice and interventions, why not schools?
If schools have affirmed the gender confusion of their students (and sometimes gone even farther than affirmation) based on what they believed to be medical consensus, what will they do now that the consensus is gone?
These are questions that should drive Massachusetts parents to demand answers from their schools about what policy and practice changes they can expect based on this new information. It should also drive school leaders, and any other person who interacts with students, to engage in deep reflection. We know that many goodhearted people have been wrong on this issue. They thought they were helping kids by perpetuating the lie of gender ideology. But they were wrong. Now, the list of excuses for not speaking up and protecting kids is getting shorter and shorter. The dominos are falling. Will they wake up before they - or more crucially, more gender-confused young people - are crushed underneath?
The invitation to Team Sanity is wide open, and there’s no time like the present to join.
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You raise a very good question. Will all teachers, guidance counsellors and health educators think twice when they rush to socially transition kids who express gender nonconformity or discomfort? I think it will take a while for the activist ngos who control school currícula and teacher training to lose their grip.
All should familiarize themselves with Scott Wiener's Victory Institute Plans making more states 'trans refuge' states. I know MA is infested and has one of the highest # of LGBTQ legislators among the states. It is very well funded. Here is what things look like in NJ :
https://margox.substack.com/p/new-jersey-new-genders-new-strategies?r=1kuq0