BREAKING: 1st Detransitioner to Take a Medical-Malpractice Lawsuit to Trial Wins $2 Million Judgement Fox Varian sued her Westchester, NY, area psychologist and plastic surgeon for the gender-transition mastectomy she got at 16. I was the only reporter to attend the entire 3-week, historic trial. Subscribe to my Substack to receive an alert about the feature article I have coming out next week in a major publication out about the trial: I cover pediatric gender medicine as a specialty on my Substack. Sorry to just give just a teaser for now about the case! But I wanted to get the word out about the verdict promptly, the slower pace of feature-article publishing notwithstanding. The entire case file was put under seal when the trial started (although I obtained all those documents before they was sealed), and all the transcripts from the trial are also under seal. The riveting trial was sparsely attended and there was only one other reporter at the trial; and he only attended for part of it and, as I observed, took few notes. So my own hundreds of pages of notes from the trial will likely remain the only way for the public to learn about the all finer details of what transpired, possibly ever (or until an appeal, should that happen). In addition to my article coming out in the media outlet soon, I intend to write a lot about what I observed and learned on my Substack over the coming weeks. Stay tuned…

The great Catherine O’Hara, one of the funniest people who ever lived, has died. You never forget the best.

Peter Deusberg has died. The biologist is centrally responsible for the HIV denialist movement, which has killed many people and which rages to this day. This despite the fact that combination antiretroviral therapy has been on the market for 30 years and has proven to be one of the most successful pharmaceutical interventions in history. In the early 2000s, South Africa's president fell under the sway of American HIV denialism and delayed the roll out of HIV treatment. An estimated 300,000 people died as a result. I interviewed Christine Maggiore, one of Duesberg's most able lieutenants, in 2006, right after her daughter died of AIDS. She was the most paranoid and mistrustful person I've ever met. She died of AIDS herself a few years later. To put it simply: HIV, left untreated, causes AIDS. AIDS is fatal. But HIV treatment works. It extends life to near normal and it prevents transmission.