The Plastic Surgeon's Verdict: Gender Surgery Is Mutilation, Not Medicine - Dr.Patrick Lappert (#30)

When a Navy-trained plastic and reconstructive surgeon breaks ranks to expose his field's "source of great shame," the revelations are devastating. Dr. Patrick Lappert brings 40+ years of surgical expertise to demolish the myth of "gender-affirming care," revealing it as cosmetic surgery for body dysmorphic disorder—something plastic surgeons are ethically forbidden to perform. In this unflinching episode, he explains why phalloplasty creates "an artifact that is essentially non-functional," how vaginoplasty can result in feces leaking through neo-vaginas, and why chest masculinization irreversibly destroys the nerve pathway that creates maternal bonding. His most damning revelation: the entire field operates on Level 5 evidence (expert opinion only)—the weakest form of scientific support—while claiming to be "standard of care." From Jazz Jennings' surgical disaster to Swedish data showing 40x higher suicide rates post-transition, Lappert exposes how surgeons are "putting themselves in the middle of obsessive-compulsive disorder" and calling it medicine. His verdict: "My first move is to mutilate them."