Wyoming’s chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is facing a credibility crisis.
For years it has solemnly testified in public hearings that so-called “gender affirming care” is both safe and effective. Now, that narrative is crumbling.
Last week, a New York jury found psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin liable for the needless pain and suffering inflicted through “gender-affirming care.”
The Westchester County Supreme Court awarded Fox Varian $2 million compensation after Einhorn talked the underage girl into cutting off her breasts, and Chin did the dirty deed.
There are at least 28 similar cases working their way through courts in various states, but this is the first one to go to trial. The millions awarded to Varian have triggered a tsunami that is headed Wyoming’s way.
Testimony at trial exposed all three forms of manipulation that commonly prop up the gender industry.
First, Varian’s psychologist, Einhorn, effectively ignored obvious mental health issues underlying her panicky pubescence.
Competent psychologists have always known that depression, anxiety, and autism should be diagnosed and treated prior to addressing the constellation of irrational ideas that they spawn. Instead, her psychologist “drove the train” that led her to question her gender, without addressing her childhood trauma in any meaningful way.
Second, that train was put on a fast track. Guidelines designed to tap the brakes and allow deliberate consideration were treated like mere red tape to be cut through on the way to a predetermined goal.
Neither psychologist nor surgeon took the time to explain just how unproven was the so-called “settled science.”
Rather than acting like objective scientists, who study the data themselves, gender-affirmers typically parrot the self-appointed experts of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Now, with the passage of time, untold children who followed their expert advice are living witnesses that their cure is worse than the disease.
A third common feature that came out in Varian’s trial was the emotional blackmail that her psychologist and surgeon used on her parents.
After all, most parents will hesitate to give a child up for surgery - especially when the tissue to be cut out is healthy in every way.
So, parents are regularly told that they have a stark and unavoidable choice: “You can either have a living son, or a dead daughter.” Faced with that choice, who wouldn’t opt for surgery?
But not only is it obviously false that cutting off a young woman’s breasts makes her into someone’s “son,” the confident claim that this Draconian procedure reduces suicide rates is pure fiction.
If anybody else uttered such a baseless claim to already-distraught parents, we would banish them from decent society. But when health professionals parrot the line, it rises to the level of malpractice. And that is exactly what the New York jury concluded.
Their verdict of medical malpractice acted like an earthquake deep beneath the ocean of transgender ideology. While ideologues can wordsmith and gaslight ad nauseam, insurance companies have to pay the piper at the end of the day. And that changes everything.
Ultimately, it is not Einhorn and Chin who will pony up the $2 million. It is their medical malpractice policies.
And now that every insurance corporation in the world can see that WPATH’s advice isn’t defensible in a court of law, which companies will continue to insure so-called “gender-affirming care”?
That is the tsunami that is coming. And those who see it coming will race to get out of the water. That’s what happened only days after the New York verdict.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons was the first out of the water. Only four days after the malpractice verdict, it changed policy to proscribe breast-removal surgery for anyone younger than 19.
Then, the American Medical Association said, “that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”
But the AAP continues to play in the water as if the alarm claxons mean nothing. On Wednesday, it issued a statement that its guidance has not changed.
That’s why it faces a credibility crisis. Wyoming’s AAP should state publicly and plainly exactly how Drs. Einhorn and Chin violated its principles.
If it cannot do that, it stands to reason that AAP’s advice leaves room for medical malpractice.
Wyoming pediatricians are right to be outraged. Membership in an organization that takes such a cavalier position on malpractice can’t be good for business.
And whatever else it might say on any other medical issue will be measured against its failure to see the obvious.
Jonathan Lange is a Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod pastor in Evanston and Kemmerer and serves the Wyoming Pastors Network. Follow his blog at https://jonathanlange.substack.com/. Email: JLange64@protonmail.com.
