In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, one character asks another how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he responds. “Gradually and then suddenly.” That quote has become a famous metaphor for slow, compounding developments that culminate in a sudden collapse – and now it applies to the transgender industrial complex that has for years insidiously preyed on vulnerable and confused children.
A pair of recent developments, which at first may appear distinct but are actually intimately related, reveal how transgender ideology has lost its grip over both the legal and medical establishments – pillars of the left’s institutional control over American society.
First, last week, a jury in White Plains, New York, awarded a 22-year-old woman named Fox Varian $2 million in a lawsuit against two medical providers. If you only get your information from legacy outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS, or NBC, you’ve completely missed this story. But it nonetheless represents a dam-breaking moment that promises to unleash a torrent of lawsuits against activist-minded medical professionals who pushed transgender “treatments” on minors based on left-wing ideology rather than science.
Journalist Benjamin Ryan was the only reporter who attended the entire three-week trial, and he published his account in The Free Press. As he details, when Varian was just 16 years old, she received a double mastectomy under the label of “gender-affirming care.”
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