This week, two of the most influential medical associations in the country quietly acknowledged what detransitioners have been saying for years: The American Medical Association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons both recognized that gender reassignment surgery on minors should not be considered standard medical practice. The ASPS said surgery is not recommended “until a patient is at least 19 years old.” To me, these policy reversals amount to a confession—a confession that came years too late, after childhoods like mine had been permanently changed in the name of “care.”
Childhood is precious. It is precious because children are innocent and because they do not yet understand the dangers and deceptions of the world. We choose our words carefully around children and avoid certain topics that may be confusing or too explicit for them to understand. We make sure they stay in bed for a decent hour and eat their vegetables so they can grow big and strong. We send them out to play with toys, like Mr. Potato Head, to use their imaginations and experience the kind of innocent fun that childhood is supposed to provide.
Unfortunately, for the past 15 years of kids, we’ve had Mr. Made Potato Heads. I would know, because I was one of those kids.
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When I was a teenager, I was introduced to transgender ideology, which led me to a series of irreversible decisions that I still live with today. Doctors and activists told me that my body was made of interchangeable parts, easily removed or added. That lie cost me healthy parts of my body that I will never get back. And the worst part is that I believed it because that’s what my doctors told me.
Prisha Mosley, 26, said she experiences chronic pain and health problems as a result of the transgender treatments she received as a troubled teenager. (Prisha Mosley)
Predatory activists and doctors enable delusions that children develop through video games, online social media communities, and movies, then entice young patients to sign up for losses they cannot possibly comprehend.
Let that sink in.
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For years I was told that what I was experiencing was not fear or trauma, but an identity problem. The solution, I was assured, was not patience, counseling or time to grow into a young woman. It was hormones, surgery, and the promise that if I changed my body enough, my mind would finally fall into place.
Doctors and activists told me that my body was made of interchangeable parts, easily removed or added. That lie cost me healthy parts of my body that I will never get back. And the worst part is that I believed it because that’s what my doctors told me.
This is how thousands of young people today are learning to see their bodies: as customizable avatars—something separate from who they are, something malleable, something disposable.
What no one dared to explain to me was that a body is a vessel. My body and mind are not separate entities negotiating with each other. Instead, they form one integrated system, designed to support each other at every stage of the human experience. You can’t cut, suppress, or chemically alter a healthy body without consequences, no matter how attractive the promise of a solution may sound.
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My doctors, instead of curing me, removed perfectly healthy bodily functions to pursue fraudulent mental health goals. Cosmetic changes cannot cure psychological suffering. Yet I was told – explicitly and implicitly – that removing healthy body parts would bring peace. I believed my doctors. I had no idea that I would later regret these changes because detransition and regret were never discussed.
Detransitioner activist Prisha Mosley holds a sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court as oral arguments for the U.S. against Skrmetti are underway, December 4, 2024. (Independent women)
Regret is often downplayed. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a leading pediatrician and advocate of medical interventions for gender-confused children, said that girls who have had a mastectomy but want breasts later in life can “go and get them!” This statement alone reveals the depth of the deception. Natural breasts are not interchangeable with silicone implants, which do not have a natural feel and cannot support breastfeeding. Olson-Kennedy deceives young women and girls in the service of an ideology.
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The industry wants patients to believe that nothing is truly lost. But now tell me this: After having a beautiful baby and wanting more children, I have to live knowing that I won’t be able to breastfeed because of my double mastectomy or feel the feeling of my baby’s skin on my chest. Doctors also fail to adequately warn patients about vaginal atrophy – or deterioration of the pelvis, uterus and hips. They somehow don’t see it as a problem when normally functioning body parts are lost, and see more silicone and surgery as the solution.
Activist doctors hide the consequences of their practices while continuing to sell false hope to new victims.
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Now the tide is turning. Also this week, detransitioner Fox Varian won a landmark case and received a $2 million judgment after suing her psychologist and surgeon for misleading her and her parents into believing that removing her healthy breasts was necessary to save her life. Experts testified that surgery does not, in fact, prevent suicide. I share Fox Varian’s pain, because I experienced a strikingly similar story at a young age – lied to and manipulated.
True compassion tells children the truth: that their bodies are not broken, not exchangeable, and not interchangeable parts of plastic toys. If we really want to protect children, we need to stop treating them like experiments and start honoring the reality that childhood isn’t something you get back once you take it apart.
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