EWTN News reports (February 3, 2026) on a New York jury awarding $2 million to Fox Varian, a woman who underwent double mastectomy at age 16 for alleged “gender dysphoria” before detransitioning. The verdict found psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin liable for inadequate mental health evaluation prior to this irreversible mutilation. The case exposes systemic failures in so-called “gender-affirming care,” with plaintiff attorneys claiming providers “departed from accepted medical standards” while carefully avoiding condemnation of transgender ideology itself. Dr. Alfonso Oliva, a Catholic Medical Association board member, cited studies revealing 70% complication rates for genital surgeries and a 19-fold suicide risk increase post-operation, condemning medical coercion of parents with false suicide threats.
Sacrilegious Assault on Divine Creation
The very premise of “gender transition” constitutes rebellion against Ordo Naturalis (the Natural Order) established by God. “God created man in His own image…male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27) establishes biological sex as immutable divine law. The Catechism of Trent condemns all who “mutilate themselves” as violating the Fifth Commandment, for “the body is the temple of the Holy Ghost” (1 Corinthians 6:19). Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) explicitly denounces those who “defile the sacredness of the flesh” through surgical interventions that destroy reproductive capacity. This verdict inadvertently exposes transgender surgeries as criminal assaults against God’s design – yet fails to condemn the underlying ideology enabling such butchery.
Modernist Subversion of Medical Ethics
The defendants’ claim to have followed “accepted medical standards” reveals medicine’s descent into ideological possession. Primum non nocere (First, do no harm) has been replaced by “first, validate delusions” in violation of Hippocratic principles. As Pius XII warned in Allocution to Midwives (1951): “Every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life and bodily integrity from the moment of conception.” The 70% complication rate for genital mutilation procedures—documented by Oliva—proves these are not therapeutic interventions but ideologically driven experiments on vulnerable youth. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns such naturalism in Proposition 56: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction”—precisely the ethos enabling surgeons to amputate healthy organs.
Systematic Suppression of Catholic Anthropology
Nowhere does the article reference Catholic teaching that gender dysphoria constitutes spiritual malady requiring conversion, not surgical “correction.” The silence echoes Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes capitulation to secular psychology, abandoning Pius X’s condemnation of Modernist errors in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “They place in nature…what is the work of supernatural grace.” By focusing solely on malpractice technicalities while avoiding moral judgment, plaintiffs and media perpetuate the lie that mutilating children could ever be licit under different “standards of care.” This mirrors the neo-church’s strategy of “accompaniment” toward mortal sin—a betrayal of Quas Primas (1925) which mandated that Christ’s reign extend to “all relations in the state…education and formation of youth in sound doctrine and purity of morals.”
Diabolical Fruits of Sexual Revolution
The 19-fold post-operative suicide increase confirms these procedures as diabolically destructive. Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the Modernist error that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20)—precisely the theology underlying gender ideology’s rejection of biological reality. When surgeons invoke “informed consent” for adolescents, they ape the serpent’s question to Eve: “Did God really say…?” (Genesis 3:1). This verdict’s $2 million award—a pittance compared to eternal damnation risks—fails to address the spiritual catastrophe: tens of thousands of souls taught to hate their Creator’s design, led by apostate “clerics” who substitute affirmation for absolution.
Call for Catholic Counter-Action
Oliva’s demand for detransition clinics must be expanded: we need sanctuaries where victims receive sacramental grace alongside reconstructive surgery. The Church’s true physicians—from Cosmas and Damian to Giuseppe Moscati—healed bodies to save souls, unlike these modern Mengele-surgeons. As Leo XIII decreed in Rerum Novarum (1891), the state must suppress immoral practices threatening the common good—not merely fine their practitioners. Until civil authorities recognize Christ’s kingship over medicine and law, such verdicts remain Band-Aids on society’s self-inflicted mortal wounds.
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New York jury awards $2 million to teen girl who formerly identified as male in malpractice case (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.02.2026