A former transgender teen has won a landmark medical malpractice lawsuit over surgery performed when she was a minor.
Jamie Reed, a former caseworker at the Washington University Transgender Center, said the $2 million verdict validates warnings she has made for years about doctors pushing minors toward irreversible surgeries.
"She deserves justice for this," Reed said Tuesday on "Fox & Friends."
"She really is the tip of the iceberg on how this industry has been treating these young people and their families."
The plaintiff, Fox Varian, was 16 years old when doctors performed the double mastectomy. She is now an adult and no longer identifies as transgender. Varian argued she was not mentally well or mature enough to make a life-altering medical decision as a minor.
"I was 16, and I was really, really mentally ill, obviously," Varian testified, according to The Free Press. "I obviously wasn’t mature enough to make the decision to have surgery, and I certainly wasn't mature enough to handle the aftermath."
On Jan. 30, a jury found that a psychologist and a surgeon were liable for malpractice, determining they had skipped key steps in deciding whether surgery was the best course of action.
This is believed to be the first malpractice verdict involving a patient who later de-transitioned and won, according to the New York Post.
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