Fox Varian - The Landmark Victory That Wasn’t

Alex Baker
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Clearest Evidence Yet of Controlled Opposition and Court Corrution in the Gender Space

On January 30, 2026, a jury in Westchester County, New York decided a medical malpractice case in favor of “detransitioner” Fox Varian, awarding her $2 million. Dr. Simon Chin, MD

was the plastic surgeon who performed a double mastectomy on her when she was 16, after clinical psychologist Kenneth Einhorn, Ph.D. convinced Varian and her parents this would be a good idea. Let me explain why this is not a victory, but rather is business as usual.

First, this was a medical malpractice case, where Varian was represented by attorney Adam Deutsch. Malpractice is a negligence claim covered by the doctor’s insurance, OK? To these doctors, it’s simply an insurance claim.

Varian Diagnosed with "Body Dysmorphia" Not "Gender Dysphoria." So What?

Why was this particular psychologist and surgeon held liable? It was most certainly not a finding about “gender affirming care” being wrong per se. According to the New York Times, Dr. Einhorn described Ms. Varian's diagnosis as “body dysmorphia,” not “gender dysphoria.” This was “an error,” continued the Times, that “proved pivotal in the jury's decision.” Also influential was the fact that Dr. Einhorn had “no formal training in transgender care.” So, if they had simply diagnosed Varian with gender dysphoria in the first place, and maybe gone to a WPATH seminar, all would be well, right?

Another Star Chamber as Varian Illegally Sealed by Corrupt Judge Ondrovic

I would love to review the documents from the entire Fox Varian case, but I cannot because the entire case is sealed. This is another Star Chamber Order, just like in the Jeff Younger case. It is blatantly unconstitutional, and blatantly un-American. Apparently the Judge Robert S. Ondrovic sealed the entire case on his “own” motion, but it doesn’t matter whether it was Plaintiff Varian, Defendant Doctors, or Judge Ondrovic who initiated the coverup. The public have a right to observe all court proceedings, and to read all court documents, forever. Period. Truly confidential information like SS# and home address can easily be redacted, and everybody involved knows this.

Journalist Ben Ryan - Gatekeeper

Journalist Ben Ryan covered then entire Fox Varian trial. Did he file a motion to unseal the case? He did not, even when I offered to draft such a motion for free. Frankly, it’s not a complicated motion at all. Any person or media outlet can file a simple form that says that there is public interest in this case, including all court documents. Court documents and entire legal proceedings are supposed to be in the public interest by definition.

Ryan would rather play the role of gatekeeper. He admits that he “downloaded the full case file before it was sealed” and that he still has the documents. “Given I was the only reporter to attend the entirety of the three-week trial,” Ryan boasts, “the furious notes I took might remain the only way for the public to learn about the finer details of this historic lawsuit.” In other words, he is complicit in the coverup. You see? In Ben Ryan’s mind, if I have questions about Varian, I must to go to him. He will decide what he wants to say, and what I am supposed to think.

Questions, Pt. 1

I have many questions about Varian. For instance, why were the issues framed as they were? Why was diagnosing Fox Varian with “body dysmorphia” a problem, but simply diagnosing her with gender dysphoria would have been OK? Now we all know that the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones has never been proven effective at treating the purely psychological condition of gender dysphoria. Meanwhile, blockers and wrong-sex hormones come with a litany of horrible consequences.

As with many unwittingly involved in the experiment, Fox Varian (assuming there is any such person) and her parents were apparently told the standard WPATH lie - that “gender affirming care” is the safe & effective “standard of care” for preventing suicide. Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter? We all know this is a lie. So why not sue for fraud? Fraud means that the Plaintiff was injured in reliance on Defendant’s intentional deception. That fits, and it’s much stronger than “malpractice.”

Or, why didn’t they sue for medical battery? Medical battery means that the Plaintiff was injured by Defendant’s harmful touching without informed consent. The argument can certainly be made that whatever consent was given to Fox Varian’s mutilation was dishonest. Why were these doctors let off the hook? This is really a question for attorney Adam Deutsch. To start, here are 10 questions about Varian v. Einhorn:

Why didn’t Varian sue for Fraud?
Why didn’t Varian sue for Medical Battery?
Did Fox Varian take testosterone?
If so, is she now able to conceive?
Did Varian testify at trial, and if so, what questions was she asked?
Did Varian give a deposition, and if so, what questions was she asked?
Did Defendant Einhorn give a deposition, and if so, what questions was he asked, and what did he say?
Did Defendant Chin give a deposition, and if so, what questions was he asked, and what did he say?
Did either Defendant testify at trial, and if so, what questions were they asked, and what did they say?
More importantly, what questions were Chin, Einhorn and Fox Varian never asked?

Varian's Expert Witnesses are WPATH??!?!? Like, WTF?

A $2 million verdict might sound like a lot, but it isn’t. First of all, this was probably a contingency case, meaning Deutsch get a big chunk of that, probably 40%. But more to the point, as I mentioned, a malpractice case is nothing more and nothing less than an insurance claim.

Defendants Chin and Einhorn didn’t pay 1¢. WPATH didn’t pay 1¢ either. In fact, they got paid. How? Stick a pin in that question for just one minute. These gender care providers were not found to have done anything wrong on purpose. Malpractice claims settle all the time. While a jury trial verdict of liability is mildly unusual (most civil cases settle before trial), this is really just business as usual. “Gender affirming care” is medical experimentation, just as lobotomy was 80 years ago. Unless and until lawyers have the integrity to plead and prosecute “detrans” cases for what they really are, this highly profitable experiment will continue.

But wait, the Fox Varian case gets worse, if you can believe it. Varian’s expert witnesses were Dr. Erica Anderson, Ph.D, a psychologist and “Transgender” person him/herself; and Loren Schechter, MD, a surgeon member of WPATH who admits that he has “been performing gender-affirming surgery for over 20 years.” Dr. Schechter’s clinical focus is on “chest surgery, breast surgery, and genital surgery.”

And these were “detransitioner” Fox Varian’s experts?” Good grief. Where was Dr. Michael Laidlaw? Or James Cantor? Or Stephen Levine? Or Miriam Grossman? or Eithan Haim? Could it be more obvious that the fix was in?

Questions, Pt. 2

I never even heard of this lawsuit until the verdict was announced, and I’ve been litigating in this space for years now. Nobody else I know had heard of this case either. That alone is quite odd. I have more questions, and since the entire case is sealed, let me pose 10 more questions to the self-appointed gatekeeper of all things Varian, Ben Ryan:

Was Erica Anderson deposed by a defense attorney, and if so, what was asked and what did he/she say?
Ditto, was Loren Schechter deposed, what was he asked, and what did he say?
Did either of Varian’s experts testify at trial, what was asked, and what did they say?
How about the defense experts, what were they asked and what did they say?
According to Ryan, the WPATH Standards of Care-8 was not brought into evidence. Why not?
Since a malpractice case turns on showing a deviation from the “standard of care,” what did the experts say constituted the standard of care, i.e what should Fox Varian and her parents have been warned about before any “gender affirming care” was consented to?
Why weren’t the standards of evidence-based medicine at issue in any way?
Was the fraudulent nature of WPATH at issue, especially since expert witnesses—Plaintiff’s experts—are openly WPATH members?
What jury instructions given by Judge Ondrovic, and how did that limit what the jury was permitted to rule?
Finally, given that nobody even heard of this case until the verdict, is “Fox Varian” even a real person?

Surgeon Chin and psychologist Einhorn were not held liable for amputating Varian’s healthy breasts, or for pushing all of the puberty blockers and hormones that led up to this. No, they were held liable because they didn’t diagnose Varian with gender dysphoria, and because they didn’t take continuing ed classes about “Transgender.” Get it? According to this case, these Defendants didn’t have enough indoctrination into gender ideology.

The Topper

The topper? The WPATH Standards of Care-8 was not entered into evidence. Let me get this straight. Plaintiff’s experts are WPATH so WPATH is getting paid, Judge Ondrovic illegally sealed the case so it’s top-secret, the insurance company paid the claim, Fox Varian (if she exists) is very private and wants no publicicty, Ben Ryan is gatekeeping and we’re all supposed to believe anything besides the fix is in? Just like lobotomy 80 years ago, the government wants this medical experiment to go forward, and Fox Varian just took a $1 million (chump change) to shut up while the butchers carry on.