In the first ever malpractice verdict against transgender surgeries, a jury in New York State has awarded a woman $2 million in damages for a double mastectomy she received as a teenager that she said left her disfigured.

The plaintiff had accused a psychologist and a plastic surgeon of failing to properly inform her about the risks and obtain adequate consent before she agreed to undergo the procedure in 2019.

Ms. Fox Varian, who was 16 at the time, was born female, but as a teenager began ‘to identify as’ a man. She later came to regret the transition and reverted to her natural state, an example of a process known as detransitioning.

Dr. Alfonso Oliva, a plastic surgeon, told EWTN News that “patients are often not given full information of the risks associated with medical transitions,” citing “very high complication rates”.

In addition, he said, aolescents “will likely become sterile, they are highly likely to have sexual dysfunction, especially young boys, many of whom won’t have sexual function or the ability to orgasm in the future.”

“These are not reversible interventions. Normal brain development, which is not completed until 25, is interrupted through hormone therapy. Problems such as obesity and diabetes, and problems with the skeletal system, which will not develop as it should, are not discussed during medical evaluations. Nor is there a significant psychiatric evaluation of these children, who are suffering, but we don’t get to the bottom of the suffering,” he said.