ALLEIGH MARRÉ: AAP Won’t Protect Children As ‘Medical Consensus’ Crumbles

At just 16 years old, Fox Varian underwent surgical “gender-affirming care” and received a double mastectomy. Soon after, she regretted the hastily scheduled, irreversible surgery and her attempt to transition. She sued the physicians who “treated” her and is now the first detransitioner in America to win a malpractice lawsuit for being irreversibly mutilated as a minor.

The same week Varian won her case, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) bucked the so-called “medical consensus” and became the first major medical organization to recommend against gender transition surgeries before age 19. The American Medical Association (AMA) quietly followed, voicing agreement in a statement requested by the media. Despite this shifting landscape, the nation’s premier pediatric society, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), said it will not amend its stance.

One need not look far to see the force behind the AAP’s position. In August 2025, at the AAP Annual Leadership Conference, “recognizing transgender patients and providing gender-affirming care” was voted the number one resolution “of utmost importance to members.” This came just seven months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States will not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support” medical procedures or treatments intended to change a child’s sex, including surgical and chemical interventions for individuals under 19. Yet in fiscal year 2025 alone, the Department of Health and Human Services still awarded more than $19 million in federal grants to the AAP. (RELATED: Online Pharmacies May Be Allowing Minors To Get Transgender Hormones ‘With Alarming Ease’)

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