I am honored to say, after negotiation, my lawsuit has been resolved. I couldn’t have done it alone. This would have never been possible had Patty, her wife Candice (@CEJacksonLaw), and Lauren, not taken on my case.
LISTEN: Detransitioner Camille Kiefel just spoke to IBM about gender transition surgery coverage. ⏬
At IBM's annual meeting of shareholders, the company faced a shareholder proposal from @Heritage via its Free Enterprise Initiative over its perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, one of the primary corporate drivers of gender ideology.
Presenting at that meeting was detransitioner Camille Kiefel (@GetBetterTweets) who underwent gender transition surgery and later regretted it, going on to sue the therapists that referred her for surgery. Kiefel talked to the company about the risks and ramifications of covering gender transition surgery in its healthcare, particularly for children as it appears that IBM does.
This was a powerful example of the real human consequences of corporate policies that aid or adopt radical, activist social agendas - and why the corporate move away from such policies and back to sanity cannot come quickly enough.
Notably, the company said much of the material in this presentation was unrelated to the proposal at hand (the proposal mentions medical transition, puberty blockers, and gender transition roughly 7 times, so make of that assertion what you will). Also, there's no meeting replay available on the company's website - this is the only place you'll find this recording.
The victims of gender ideology are now speaking to the companies that helped subsidize it. That's a watershed moment. Listen below.
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At IBM's annual meeting today, the company heard from a detransitioner about the risks of gender ideology. ⏬
IBM faced a shareholder proposal from @Heritage, urging the company to provide shareholders with transparency over the policies implied by ratings from activist organizations like the Human Rights Campaign.
This wasn't a theoretical discussion. It was a question about the ramifications of gender ideology in corporate healthcare coverage. And those ramifications are human ones.
At the meeting, IBM shareholders heard one of those human stories - Camille Keifel (@GetBetterTweets), a detransitioner who underwent surgery in 2020 over gender identity struggles and later regretted it.
In Kiefel's words, "This is not about politics. This is about ensuring that decisions with permanent consequences are made with full information, proper safeguards, and appropriate caution."
This is only the beginning. Investors are taking notice. And advocacy organizations like @ADFLegal and @1792Exchange are helping sound the alarm.
Despite what IBM argued at the meeting about this issue's relevance, Corporate America's approach to medical transition coverage, particularly when it comes to children, is only becoming more controversial and relevant to brand reputation. Companies' choices, both current and past, will play a part in how many more tragic stories of gender transition regret come to the surface.
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"@m_estruth details a @Heritage shareholder push at IBM for transparency," which included a detransitioner, @GetBetterTweets, testifying "about rushed procedures, lifelong harm, & the need for corporations to reconsider their involvement." via @ReadTheLion https://t.co/4s7SOP0yUt
I am honored to say, after negotiation, my lawsuit has been resolved. I couldn’t have done it alone. This would have never been possible had Patty, her wife Candice (@CEJacksonLaw), and Lauren, not taken on my case.
@CEJacksonLaw After Patty’s passing, Hostetter Law Group continued with the lawsuit and Campbell Miller Payne assisted. It was an honor to work with them and I am so grateful that they were able to revive the case to see a positive outcome.
No one is non-binary.
Live chat today with me and @GetBetterTweets at 4PM PST via link below!
Come watch our interview about Camille's detransition story, and chat with us.
Watch the livestream of TODAY's event Detransitioners Speak: After the Experiment Starting at 10am-3pm MT.
We're honored to elevate the voices of @SorenAldaco@GetBetterTweets@EvanD3LaCruz@Sackless_Jack@LJDetrans along with Cat, Noah, Forrest, LaRell, Mazy, Rilee, and Clayton. https://t.co/FNotn6eF2d
Please join us this Sunday, April 19 in Denver to hear from twelve brave detransitioners as they share their experiences and discuss their challenges in moving forward after being “transgender”. Panelists include @EvanD3LaCruz@SorenAldaco@LJDetrans@Sackless_Jack@GetBetterTweets and more. https://t.co/LIj0zkOWd0
A jury has awarded Fox Varian a total of $2 million after it found her psychologist and surgeon liable for medical malpractice related to a mastectomy at age 16.
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: https://t.co/dQRHZHqWHn. 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…
Detrans Help is deeply saddened by the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Our thoughts are with his family during this painful time.
Charlie Kirk supported detransitioners when many had cast us aside.
As a psychiatrist, I was trained to believe that severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were lifelong and largely irreversible—caused by faulty neurodevelopment, the kindling effect, or some form of permanent brain damage.
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