By Steve Levy
Little attention has been given to a landmark verdict this past month that awarded $2 million to an individual who had her breasts removed by doctors who, the jury claimed, pressured the young woman and her family to undergo a sex change operation at the age of 16.
Many commonsense Americans who have enormous sympathy for those going through gender dysphoria were nevertheless appalled by a cottage industry that developed to push children to undergo chemical therapy and to mutilate and sterilize them before they reach the age of majority. They are fine with anyone over 18 making their own decisions about their own bodies, but it’s a different thing when it comes to children.
We don’t allow children to even go to a tanning salon. Nor do we allow them to smoke, drive or vote. We make these distinctions because the child’s brain has not fully developed, and they’re not ready to make the same decisions that adults do. Nothing fits into that category more than sterilizing oneself.
Executive orders and legislation have sought to stem this tide, but liberal states have still been squirming around it. But this lawsuit has the potential of putting a stake in the heart of the child mutilation and sterilization industry.
What doctor is going to remove the sex organs or sterilize a minor, knowing that they could be liable for millions of dollars in a lawsuit?
We do not take this lightly because we are generally opposed to the massive litigation and defensive medicine that takes place in America. But these were specific cases where the so-called professionals were brainwashing children and parents that the children were going to commit suicide unless the parents acquiesced to the removal of their sex organs.
Some parents were even asked if they would “rather have a live daughter or a dead son.”
The jury said that this was over the line. Good for them. Where executive orders and legislation couldn’t stop this sterilization, perhaps these lawsuits will.
More and more studies are coming out showing that the mutilation did not cure the underlying psychiatric problems that these confused children were facing. The studies suggest that large numbers of these children eventually work out their problems without the need for chemical injections, sterilization or mutilation. If by the time they are 18 and haven’t worked it out, then they can decide for themselves.
Good people with common sense knew that children needed time to sort through these difficult periods, but it was the so-called professionals in the white coats who were condescendingly trying to bully parents and the rest of us into acquiescing to these procedures so they could make millions. There’s a very special place in hell for those in this cottage industry who destroyed the lives of these children so that they can profit from it.
Since the over-the-top politicization of the medical community through COVID and beyond has so severely damaged the credibility of many of these professionals, the public is rightly refusing to stay silent when some of the profession proposed concepts that defied common sense.
This is a lesson to the average American that they should never disregard their own common sense just because a person in a white coat condescendingly tries to gaslight them.