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Plastic Surgeons Unsettle The Scientific 'Consensus' For Pediatric Sex Lobotomy

One detransition lawsuit and four days late

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Matt Osborne
Feb 03, 2026
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Just days after a New York jury delivered a $2 million verdict in the world’s first detransition lawsuit, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued new guidelines to limit ‘gender affirming’ surgeries to patients who are at least 19 years old.

Media cope was instant. “Fewer than 1,000 minors in the United States receive such surgeries every year, according to research published in JAMA, the American Medical Association’s journal, and the vast majority of the procedures are mastectomies, not genital surgeries”, Paige Winfield Cunningham writes at The Washington Post.

Oh! So they were all just useless healthy breasts being lopped off, rather than the precious cocks-and-balls? Well that’s fine, then, apparently. But what is this Ms. Cunningham says about minors having surgeries? Because I was repeatedly assured for at least a decade that this never happens.

The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, says in some rare cases, teenagers under 18 have received transitio…

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