The problem with suing isn’t just that they have signed away “informed consent” waivers, so that the lawyers can say: “Mrs Troon, is it or isn’t it your signature right here that says you understand you risk INSERT HORRIBLE COMPLICATION and want the surgery regardless?”
Informed consent is way more than just a signature on a document, though. You need to be able to say that a patient understood their condition, their diagnosis, the treatment, and the alternate options for treatment (including doing nothing). And that clearly is not happening. They're coming in brainwashed from a cult thinking they have the soul of the opposite sex, and surgeons are just pushing them through and collecting the cash.
Personally I think if a patient goes into a gender-medicine treatment thinking it is possible for any human to change sex, they cannot meaningfully consent to a "gender" intervention because that alone means they don't understand the treatment and likely results.
Like, a doctor can have a signature on a form saying that a patient consented to a kidney donation, but if the patient went into the OR thinking that kidneys grow back, and no one ever checked her understanding and then sat down and explained it to her, she didn't meaningfully consent. And it would be especially unethical if the doctors were aware that patients were regularly coming in from online hugboxes telling young people that donated organs grow back and lying about their kidney results, and yet they
still didn't check for understanding.
The "standard of care" you mentioned though, that seems to be the real hurdle.
Anyone heard anything else from Gruffin? I know we're not supposed to pozload my neghole directly, but I'd be interested to know if there are any non-farmers close enough to her circle who are able to reach out for a sign of life every once in awhile.
I can only imagine that her trans 'friends' are all telling her to STFU now that her speedrun to complete organ failure is making the whole trans project look really bad, and when she dies (in what, 3-5 years probably?) they will try to sweep away any evidence that she existed.
If we lived in anything resembling a sane world there would be an investigative journalist gently interviewing Gruffin to get her story before she dies, and the tale of her slow painful death at the hands of the medical system would be a featured news story. If nothing else, the public should be aware of the
massive waste of medical resources.
As it is, we'll be lucky if Reduxx covers it, and maybe a few Twitter threads. (No shade on Reduxx, they do important work)
Anyway, I was out of this thread for a while so I missed this picture:
Yes she looks like a baby, but I'm also struck by her extreme manifestation of the "doughy skin" phenomenon:
I know it’s not related to what she is saying but why do so many FTMs look so… doughy? .. They all have this particular skin texture, it’s bizarre. I’m not just talking about being fat or chubby, either (although obviously that contributes). Plenty of fat people don’t have this particular look to their skin, and even non-fat FTMs seem to have it.
Another example from that thread:
Why do pooners have skin like that? This is going to haunt me to my dying day.