This industry’s mounting fears were demonstrated days later on Feb. 3, when the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a new “Position Statement on Gender Surgery for Children and Adolescents,” which concluded, “[T]here is insufficient evidence demonstrating a favorable risk-benefit ratio for the pathway of gender-related endocrine and surgical interventions in children and adolescents.” This is because “systematic reviews and evidence reassessment have subsequently identified limitations in study quality, consistency, and follow-up alongside emerging evidence of treatment complications and potential harms.” Of course, the U.K.’s systematic Cass Review arrived at this fact in April 2024.

Thus, this new position statement proclaimed, in bold, “ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”

No one should downplay the profound significance of this confession. Certainly, ASPS’s nine-page statement was in the works before this $2 million New York judgment. It fully knew which way the wind was blowing, and the ASPS is not alone.

On that very same day, Feb. 3, a spokesman for the American Medical Association (AMA) told The Washington Post that “the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement” in support of such procedures. The Post reported the AMA “agrees with ASPS that surgeries for minors should be generally deferred to adulthood in the absence of clear evidence.”

We are expected to believe these ideological and experimental transgender medical interventions will become wonderfully efficacious the day a minor comes of age. Of course, they will not. These new policy positions are all about liability protection and legal consent.

But here’s what is true. Feb. 3, 2026, can now be marked as the day major American medical associations admitted the “settled science” of wrongly named gender-affirming care has been a house of cards.

Richard Levine, President Biden’s loud and proud assistant secretary of health — who transformed into “Rachel” at the ripe age of 54, ending his decades-long marriage to his wife and his fatherhood of two children — famously peddled the settled-science lie. He regularly claimed experimentally giving off-label drugs to children and cutting off their perfectly healthy body parts was “evidence-based” and “literally saves lives.”

He authoritatively declared on National Public Radio in 2022:

There is no argument among medical professionals — pediatricians, pediatric endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. — about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care.

It was not that long ago that the AMA, which now admits the research is “insufficient,” barked at citizens in an official national press statement to, “Stop interfering in health care of transgender children.”

Of course, there are no “transgender” children … or adults. The American Psychiatric Association has readily admitted that “transgender” is not a medical or psychiatric diagnosis. It does not exist in nature. It is an ideological construct. Oh, that fickle “settled science!”

Note also that the “Trans them or they will die!” fabrication parroted by medical, psychological, educational, and social work professionals also died with the ASPS and AMA admissions. They are all too aware of what happened in December 2024 when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asked American Civil Liberties Union attorney and trans champion Chase Strangio, in United States v. Skrmetti oral arguments, to respond to the fact that “on page 195 of the Cass report, it says: ‘There is no evidence that gender-affirmative treatments reduce suicide.’” She was forced to admit this fact before the court.

The trans lie is imploding under the pressure of reality. Male and female are biological facts and unspeakably beautiful human truths. They are not “performative acts,” as the highly influential gender theorist Judith Butler first declared in Theatre Journal in late 1988.

There, Butler infamously catapulted this whole sex-denying revolution, writing, “In order to describe the gendered body, a phenomenological theory of constitution requires an expansion of the conventional view of acts to mean both that which constitutes meaning and that through which meaning is performed or enacted.” She followed that tortured convolution with this plainer language: “In other words, the acts by which gender is constituted bear similarities to performative acts within theatrical contexts.”

There is no gender studies class at any university that does not pay homage to Butler’s foundational influence. Her words famously became manifest in what launched this season of madness: Bruce Jenner appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine as “Caitlyn” in the summer of 2015. We were all expected to dutifully believe he simply became the woman he always was. (Few appreciate this took place just hours before the U.S. Supreme Court de-sexed marriage and the family in its landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision.) Butler’s theatrical concept of male and female also presaged male Dylan Mulvaney’s long, boorish cosplay that started as “Day 1 of being a girl” in 2022.

Yes, the ASPS and AMA are the first culpable professional medical societies to admit that America is no longer hostage to this fabrication. Feb. 3, 2026, now marks the beginning of the end of the trans delusion. This fact is well worth celebrating and remembering.

>>1488402
they should toss the mom in jail too for child abuse

I sure do love impartial, non-biased media.

>>1488402
>the epoch times
Is /news/ seriously this desperate for MIGA wins they’re quoting the fucking Epoch Times now? Please get some gender affirming surgery in the form of walking into oncoming traffic

>>1488402
>On Jan. 30, a New York State jury awarded a 22-year-old woman, Fox Varian, $2 million in damages for her 2019 “gender-affirming” double mastectomy, which she came to deeply regret. She was 16 years old at the time.
Thank God the largest association of cosmetic surgeons in the US no longer recommend body mutilation surgeries for minors

>>1488402
Eff u, bigot scum.
I couldn't afford the surgery to transition, so I had it done in a back alley and I got this angry 1 inch nub. At least the kids today are getting some help becoming trannies, so you can jerk off to the pictures of them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnlAso3p7A

>>1488427
You attack that source. How dare it provide you with factual information, it's RIGHT WING for christ's sake.

>>1488404
>>1488405
>>1488406
>>1488407
Literally none of this is actually talking about the case itself holy shit. Stop yapping and talk about what you're covering instead of running down a checklist.

Also, this fundamentally ignores what exactly was settled in court. The issue wasn't that she got the surgery at all but rather that they didn't go through the checklist of things BEFORE surgery was required. It's equivalent to saying "See, the knee surgery itself was the problem!" and not the fact they didn't bother doing any other treatment before cutting open the knee.

>>1488402
Yeah looking into this case, the issue is that she got diagnosed with BODY dysmorphia and not GENDER dysmorphia yet they still did this, which is not by any metric the recommended treatment for that form of dysmorphia. They even had her recommended to a gender specialist to make sure only for her to ditch them after just a few sessions in favor of their original psychologist who didn't seem to know the fucking difference. And in that regard yeah, valid malpractice suit since you should know the difference between these two issues before recommending any kind of surgery.

Not saying the professionals are completely blameless, but this girl is not some innocent victim. She openly identified as a guy, wore a binder, sought to get a mastectomy and knew exactly which kind she wanted prior to speaking with surgeons, claimed she had wanted it for a long time and threatened suicide whenever there was any sort of pushback during the process. She was happy with the results of the surgery and lived as a guy years until she suddenly decided to file the lawsuit. She lied and manipulated to get what she wanted and then blamed other people when she regretted her choices.

>>1488551
>She lied and manipulated to get what she wanted
She was a sixteen year old girl. That's what sixteen year old girls do. All the adults in the room should be ashamed.

If you let a child cut her boobs off because she told you she was a boy, you're lucky a lawsuit is all you have to worry about. I want to see you all in prison.

>>1488551
As guilty, if not moreso, are the groomers that led her to this in the first place.

>>1488551
A teenage girl using manipulation against her single mom to get what she wants? I'm shocked!

>>1488544
>The issue wasn't that she got the surgery at all
The issue was that she didn't NEED the surgery at all, and you subhuman leftists pressured her and her mother to get the surgery.

>>1488578
nah
right wing retards pushed her because they're obsessed with desperate trans prostitutes
just stop fucking kids, its not a hard ask

>>1488578
She had body dysmorphia, not gender dysmorphia. You don't treat body dysmorphia through surgery; her psychologist even recommended her to a gender specialist to make sure whether her issue was with her body or gender only for her to quit going to said specialist and insist that she needed the surgery.

>>1488586
Because groomers insist that it's always gender dysmorphia even when it's mundane shit like temporary depression or a mild interest in hobbies that are stereotypically done by the other gender. How much affirmation bombardment can a teenage girl take before she believes it? They can't all be wrong, can they?

>>1488587
For all intents and purposes it seems SHE was the one continuously insisting it was gender dysmorphia to the point of dismissing the actual gender dysmorphia specialist they tried to get her to see. I do think the doctors are at fault for not doing due diligence to verify her actual condition but simultaneous they did TRY.

>>1488599
She's a minor.

>>1488587
>How much affirmation bombardment can a teenage girl take before she believes it?
You can't force a kid to believe they're the wrong gender.
Its been proven

>>1488601
Minors can still have either form of dysmorphia. This is a misdiagnosis case, nothing more nothing less.

>>1488602
Proven how? If the "proof" is that the parents couldn't convince their kid to come back from the brink and they went through with a transition, then I will be laughing at you.

>>1488617
There's multiple instances of kids who had some kind of genitial issues that led to their parents raising them as the opposite sex, only for them to reclaim their original sex because they always felt something was wrong. You cannot force gender dysphoria; it is inherent to the person.

>>1488622
But you can convince someone that what you're pushing is the solution to their problem. I guarantee that girl had a bunch of "online friends" and maybe councilors at school who told her that she felt wrong because she was actually a boy, and she believed them hard enough to push it herself. I do not believe for a second that she was this adamant about transitioning entirely on her own. Only after the surgery did she realize that it didn't solve anything.

>>1488627
Headcanon.

>>1488622
Yes, some people are mentally ill, and others are not.

>>1488552
>>1488563
>>1488557
A 16 year old isn't a literal child with no concept of what they're doing. They're close to being legally adults. Acting like she has 0 accountability or responsibility in the matter is retarded. Nobody made her identify as trans or seek out surgery, that was her own doing. I have no sympathy for her or other regretful trannies that got what they wanted.

>>1488685
>Nobody made her identify as trans or seek out surgery, that was her own doing
So, pop culture has no influence?
Interesting assertion, in how re-fucking-tarded it is.

>>1488685
Its still not the teens fault though, its the whole ecosystem of gender affirming surgeries and the shitty doctors who profit off of tricking gullible idiots into optional surgery.
Its not a coincidence that retarded conservatives fall for these conmen the hardest.

>>1488685
Except as a society we've already decided there are certain things that people can't do until they are a certain age.
>I want to smoke and drink!
Sorry miss, that could have long term health impacts, you don't know what you're getting into.
>I'm actually a boy and want to cut my boobs off!
Step right up! One two hour meeting with a "professional" and you'll be on your way!

>>1488551
She was 16. Try applying that logic to a 16 year old high school crushing on her teacher and flirting with him. Fucking pedo.

>>1488738
>Fucking pedo
This is a thread about a right wing chud shooting up a school in canada
please confine your TDS to the other containment threads

>>1488740
No, THIS >>1488013 is a thread about a right wing chud shooting up a school in canada.

Fucking lol.

>>1488741
did you link to the Hunter Biden thread on purpose?

>>1488744
Are a poorly trained bot, esl, or just stupid?

Do they use the removed breasts as donor organs?

>>1488622
But you're not talking about "gender dysphoria" you're talking about kids who are literally being raised as the wrong sex and recognizing that fact - just cause you cut a boy's wiener off doesn't make him not a boy even if you stick him in dresses and insist he's a girl.

lol.

>>1488765
But a woman is about clothing, hair, nails, boobs and a nasally male voice. That's literal the definition.
Therefore anyone who wears women's clothing, uses hormones to grow boos and grows long hair can be a woman.

>>1488765
>just cause you cut a boy's wiener off doesn't make him not a boy even if you stick him in dresses and insist he's a girl.
Yes very good. You cannot convince someone they have a gender identity that doesn't align with their brain. Now, with that in mind, what do you think happens with the ones who ARE convinced of that?

>>1488827
I assume you're joking but I don't think people appreciate how bizarre the tranny view of women really is, to essentially see a woman as just a man with long hair and feminine clothing...it's insulting if you think about it for more than a few seconds. Being raised as a girl doesn't matter and having female reproductive parts doesn't matter - the only things that makes someone a woman is wearing makeup and dresses.

>>1488829
They end up with a lot of regrets after finding out their irreversible surgery didn't solve any of their problems.

>>1488923
1% regret rate says otherwise lol.

>>1488926
It's more like 15-35% (depending on the specific mental illness that causes the want for mutilation) according to more recent and reliable data.
The 1% number comes from an activist study. Which is obvious if you read it.

>>1488579
Projected that hard enough.
Especially coming from the party that is all about lobbying for legal changes, based on "I feel..." "so I should have the right" over-entitled weirdos. The trans movement was/is the spearhead for the maps movement. You all were such willing participants too.
You see, pushing for the legal acceptance of, "I feel like a woman so I should have the right to be seen as a woman, legally." leads to, "I feel a child so I should have the right to ..." you see where that's going? The kind of agenda you and too many others helped perpetuate.
There is a reason a large part of the original LG community didn't want anything to do with this BTQ+ debauchery. They could see through the truth and that groups propensity for kids.

>>1488579
leftists losers made depressed people think they have body dis-morphia and need surgery to get better. then when they take it and realize they just irreparably ruined their bodies you go and mock them for siding with the chuds when they realize ur full of shit.
leftists are the worst.
Also all the kiddie fuckers are majority leftists anon, you're the party saying kids can consent to life changing surgery despite the standard being anyone under 18 cannot consent to anything. That's why if a kid murders someone and they're under 18 they get juvenile and a much lighter sentence even if they're just 17.
I hope ur happy, i hope you suffer you are to blame alongside your group of mentally ill narcassists

>>1489028
>I hope ur happy,
I laugh at conservatives who ruined their bodies with shitty gender affirming surgeries every day
Its genuinely funny how shittily they mutilate themselves to fit in to their cult

>>1488540
>The trans lie is imploding under the pressure of reality.

Thank you my unbiased source of factual information

>>1489030
conservatives aren't the one transitioning anon. you're just shifting people from politically neutral to the right. I hope you're happy, those people who hate you are now a left never ever.
Even if they disagree with republican party they will vote for them just to spite you after you've ruined their lives

>>1488402
>>On Jan. 30, a New York State jury awarded a 22-year-old woman, Fox Varian, $2 million in damages for her 2019 “gender-affirming” double mastectomy, which she came to deeply regret. She was 16 years old at the time.

I feel like if they're going to pay someone out for it they should be charging the parents for child abuse at the same time. Not just the surgeon. seems kind of absurd that a mom can consent to letting her child have their life ruined then receive a payout for it.

>>1489032
>conservatives aren't receiving the most gender affirming surgeries
cope harder, lmao
those surgeries are for people that weren't born the gender they wanted to be
conservatives having to get them to reinforce the gender they were born to is hilarious and reinforces that they're the lowest tier of people

>>1488926
Even literal life saving surgeries (like say for cancer) have regret rates way higher than 1%, if you want your bullshit claims to be halfway believable you gotta make the regret rate a little higher than that.

>>1489168
To be fair that's probably a correct number (minutes and days after the mutilation).
Since the mentally ill person who had functioning body parts removed believed it got what it wanted.

Fuck that. Be who you wanna be, do as you wanna do. Not to the detriment of others. Not one single red cent for this bullshit. Live with the consequences of your actions and choices.