Tea at Trianon: The Transgender Industrial Complex Is Collapsing

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

The Transgender Industrial Complex Is Collapsing

From AMAC:

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, one character asks another how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he responds. “Gradually and then suddenly.” That quote has become a famous metaphor for slow, compounding developments that culminate in a sudden collapse – and now it applies to the transgender industrial complex that has for years insidiously preyed on vulnerable and confused children.

A pair of recent developments, which at first may appear distinct but are actually intimately related, reveal how transgender ideology has lost its grip over both the legal and medical establishments – pillars of the left’s institutional control over American society.

First, last week, a jury in White Plains, New York, awarded a 22-year-old woman named Fox Varian $2 million in a lawsuit against two medical providers. If you only get your information from legacy outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS, or NBC, you’ve completely missed this story. But it nonetheless represents a dam-breaking moment that promises to unleash a torrent of lawsuits against activist-minded medical professionals who pushed transgender “treatments” on minors based on left-wing ideology rather than science.

Journalist Benjamin Ryan was the only reporter who attended the entire three-week trial, and he published his account in The Free Press. As he details, when Varian was just 16 years old, she received a double mastectomy under the label of “gender-affirming care.”

During the trial, Varian’s mother, Claire Deacon, testified that she initially did not want her daughter to undergo the surgery. But Varian’s psychologist, Kenneth Einhorn, said that removing her breasts was the only way to “heal” her gender confusion.

Like so many other parents of confused kids, Deacon was made to believe that her daughter was in mortal danger unless she signed off on the surgery. Einhorn and his co-defendant, plastic surgeon Simon Chin, argued that Varian wanted the procedure and that she was at risk of suicide if she did not have the mastectomy. It was “the hardest, most difficult, gut-wrenching” decision, Deacon told the jury.

As whistleblowers from inside the gender transition industry have reported, this sort of emotional blackmail is the go-to strategy for doctors and mental health professionals pushing transgender drugs and surgeries for minors. (Read more.)