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When I was just 16 years old, I began a journey that I would regret for the rest of my life. I felt shocked and depressed, and I thought my suffering could be shortened Gender confusion.
This is, after all, what online activists and even my health care providers tell me. They assured me that complete gender transition was the solution only solution.
I listened to them, hurt and desperate for solace and community. When I was 18, I was taking testosterone and had… She underwent a double mastectomy. The debilitating physical consequences of these procedures still plague me nearly 10 years later. They probably always will.
President-elect Trump speaks to the media after a meeting with Republican senators at the US Capitol on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. (Valerie Blish/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
It's stories like mine, which I first shared with Independent Women as part of our vital “Identity Crisis” series, that gender ideologues prefer to ignore. Trans advocates like me expose the ugly truth of gender medicine. We prove that so-called “gender affirming” treatments exist no Reversible or temporary.
Most importantly, we prove that medical interventions do not cure the problem Underlying psychological trauma It is found in many gender-confused young people. If anything, these interventions make matters worse, as the scars on my wrists and chest attest.
But for the first time in years, I'm hopeful that things are about to change.
This month, President-elect Trump is set to return to the White House, where he has promised swift action against institutional “gender affirming care.” He could start by immediately rescinding the executive order signed by President Biden that directed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promote “expanded access” to these harmful interventions.
Gatekeeping is security. Expanding access to the “confirm only” model for medical fraud increases the number of transfer cancelers like me. Children who hurt them become remorseful adults. Vulnerable populations like these Suffering from mental illnessChildren, especially children, deserve our protection – even if they need protection from activist doctors or themselves.
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Trump could also direct his Department of Health and Human Services to pressure medical organizations and providers to move away from “gender-affirming care” altogether — the opposite of what Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services did when it bullied the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). To remove the tooth. Guidelines limit treatment recommendations.
In contrast to the Biden administration, science – and common sense – will be on the side of the Trump administration. Detailed report from National Health Services in the United Kingdom Last year the NHS confirmed what many trans advocates like me have been saying for years: that “gender-affirming care” for minors lacks sufficient evidence and has lifelong consequences.
The report's author, Hilary Cass, wrote that many of the studies activists and doctors relied on to justify these interventions were “exaggerated or distorted.” Lies and misinformation have no place in health care.
The truth is consistent. Reality cannot be successfully overcome; Eventually he will catch on to your lie. Doctors have lied to detransitioners, and we, the patients, pay the price when reality knocks.
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But Trump should not stop at simply removing expansion of a harmful practice. The incoming president also suggested he would work with the Republican-controlled Congress to pass legislation to “permanently stop the use of federal taxpayer dollars for promotion or payment.” Gender medical interventionsHe banned what he rightly calls “sexual mutilation of children” in all 50 states.
If laws like this had been on the books when I was a kid, I would still have a healthy body. I would not have suffered from vaginal atrophy and dryness due to years of testosterone injections. I wasn't going to end up a medical patient for life.
There are many other children and young people who may suffer similar consequences. According to the medical nonprofit Do No Harm, at least 13,395 minors in the United States underwent some type of “sex reassignment” procedure between 2019 and 2023. The youngest patient was 7 years old. Each will suffer lifelong harmful physical and mental consequences.
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The next administration has the opportunity to stop this disaster in its tracks. America's youth can and must be protected – from activists who seek to use them to advance ideological goals, and from health care providers who profit from aggressive and exploitative practices. Medical interventions are expensiveEven from themselves and their confusion.
I am living proof of what happens when those in leadership positions fail to take this charge seriously. I can only hope that my story, and the stories of tens of thousands of transition removal workers, are not ignored.
