Malpractice Suits Are Starting To Bring Down The Transgender Industrial Complex
Jane Robbins
Insurance companies reviewing the gender mutilation landscape can see nothing but hefty checks written to plaintiffs and their attorneys.
True societal pathologies have a limited shelf life, and it turns out the most recent pathology – transgender ideology — is no exception. Detransitioner Fox Varian recently won $2 million against the psychologist and surgeon who led her into mutilation, a double mastectomy, at the age of 16. Almost immediately, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Medical Association timidly walked back their support of gender-related mutilation of minors. The reckoning has begun.
In A Moon for the Misbegotten, Eugene O’Neill proposes that “[t]here is no present or future — only the past, happening over and over again — now.” The transgender phenomenon — though, in its details, unprecedented in human history — seems to have happened before.
In 1935, Portuguese neurosurgeon Dr. Antonio Egas Moniz created the lobotomy procedure to treat severe mental illness. The first U.S. lobotomy was performed in 1936 by Dr. Walter Freeman and Dr. James Watts at George Washington University Hospital. From the mid-1930s until the late 1950s, approximately 40,000-50,000 U.S. patients were lobotomized. The global community of medical experts was so impressed with this treatment that, in 1949, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the man who invented it.
As “perfected” by Dr. Freeman, a lobotomy involved plunging an ice pick through the patient’s eye socket and into his brain. The trail of physical and mental ruination was long and wide.
No one does lobotomies anymore. Repulsion caught up with the experts and ended the horror.
In the 1980s, a different type of mania swept the therapeutic world. This one left not physical scars but a wake of emotional, reputational, and family devastation. The phenomenon was called “repressed memories” or “false memories,” aligning with the American Psychiatric Association’s inclusion of “psychogenic amnesia” in its 1980 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders.