The Domino Effect: Jury Awards $2 Million In First Detransition Lawsuit To Ever Reach Trial

2026 is the year that damage awards change the incentive structures

Everyone who pays attention to the unfolding medical scandal of pediatric ‘gender transition’ has known a tsunami of litigation would happen, eventually, and now the wave is here. Following a three-week trial, a jury in White Plains, New York awarded Fox Varian $2 million on Friday. It was the first of many similar lawsuits already filed or ready to be filed in 2026.

According to her mother’s testimony, Varian was 16 when her psychologist, Dr. Kenneth Einhorn, advised that the child needed a gender-affirming double mastectomy to prevent a future suicide. According to Stacey Robinson, a reporter for the Epoch Times, Dr. Einhorn’s testimony sealed his fate with the jury because he had conflated Varian’s body dysmorphia with gender dysphoria.

Robinson reported on Day 3 of the trial that Adam Deutsch, attorney for the plaintiff, was “questioning why Einhorn’s approval letter contained several inaccuracies and omissions, such as the fact that Varian was still questioning which pronouns to use.” Dr. Simon Chin, a co-defendant in the litigation, had already testified “that he was unaware of this fact” before removing Varian’s healthy breasts.

Journalist Benjamin Ryan, who attended the entire trial, is currently tracking 28 existing cases of litigation all over the United States. As Ryan notes, the number would be far higher if not for “strict statutes of limitation, such as the case against leading pediatric gender doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy. Attorneys intend to appeal this dismissal”.

Benjamin Ryan’s spreadsheet screenshot. I am aware of some litigants or potential litigants who are not on here and meet statutory limitations, so this list is partial

Transgender activists had dismissed the case ahead of time. Ryan and Robinson appear to be the only professional journalists who attended the trial at all. This story has snuck up on mainstream media outlets captured by genderwoo. “This is the beginning of the avalanche”, investigative journalist Mia Hughes reacted. There will be more, and bigger, judgments.

Attorney Glenna Goldis, who was fired just last week for warning New York State Attorney General about a rising wave of fraud claims related to pediatric ‘gender medicine’, pointed out that Westchester County is deeply blue. “The schools there are famously captured but regular people are not”, Goldis said. Juries hate doctors that lie and hurt kids, who could have predicted?

Six jurors awarded Ms. Varian “$1.6 million for past and future pain and suffering, and another $400,000 for future medical expenses”, according to Robinson’s reporting at The Epoch Times. Observing the verdict was Josh Payne, an attorney who formed the Campbell Miller Payne law firm in 2023 to represent ex-trans litigants against the clinicians who harmed them.

“A jury of everyday Americans sent a clear message: justice will be served for vulnerable individuals who were misled into gender-transition procedures without appropriate safeguards”, Payne said. Wise words from a man who is probably going to inflict $100 million of regret on people who did the same things to other children.

Every profession involved in the pediatric transition fad — therapists, counselors, teachers, doctors, nurses, law enforcement, nonprofit work, and public administration — has adopted a paradigm that judicial mills will grind from grist to fine powder, over and over again. Lawsuits, not moral pronouncements, will determine who is on the right side of history.

A historical perspective is warranted. In 1977, the United States Supreme Court struck down bans on attorney advertising in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona. Two years later, Jim Sokolove founded his own law firm in order to pioneer TV advertising for legal compensation related to asbestos exposure and mesothelioma. Here is one of the firm’s ads from 2003.

At the time, public awareness of mesothelioma, a rare, malignant type of cancer in the lungs that is usually associated with exposure to asbestos, was minimal. By the turn of the century, mesothelioma — as well as the law firms advertising for clients on television — probably had 99 percent public awareness. People old enough to remember the year 2000 can still recite these ads today when prompted.

They were constant and inescapable. They are still on the air today, since older viewers who watch linear TV are the most likely to have been exposed to asbestos. Now imagine similar exposure and public awareness for the iatrogenic harms of pediatric ‘gender medicine’, many of which do not appear for many years after exposure to wrong-sex hormones. In the literature of detransition, the average exit from transgender identification takes 8-11 years.

When there are enough verdicts of enough size, the cohort of youth who began their ‘gender journeys’ a decade ago will begin to clamor for extended statues of limitations themselves. The ex-trans litigant will become a new social contagion, just like the ‘trans child’ has been, as narrative shifts follow incentives. Then watch the same people who agitated hardest for silencing of dissent, for unrestricted access at any age, become the new hot topic of conversation again.

Many people will say that it all seemed right to them at the time, that pediatric sex lobotomy was presented to them as a miracle drug and a kindness to people who are different. They will plead ignorance of the truth at the time, for there was no way to know that the science was not at all ‘settled’, or that the ‘consensus’ was a lie. Had they only known, they will say, then of course they would have been on the right side of history, because they are good people.

They will be liars, of course, but at least they will be forced to stop hurting kids. There is hell to pay and so someone will have to pay it. This is how the American system holds such people accountable. Let justice rain down like waters. Let the liars invent all the new lies they want, as long as they stop hurting kids.