I was traumatized by the so-called ‘gender confirmation’ care. Trump must protect others from this abuse

When I was just 16 years old, I began a journey that I will regret for the rest of my life. I was traumatized and depressed and believed that my struggles could be boiled down to anything gender confusion.

That, after all, is what online activists and even my own health professionals have told me. And they assured me that a complete sex change was the solution – that only solution.

Hurt and desperate for comfort and community, I listened to them. By the time I was 18 I was on and off testosterone underwent a double mastectomy. The debilitating physical effects of those procedures still affect me almost 10 years later. Probably always will.

It’s stories like mine, which I first shared with Independent Women as part of their vital “Identity Crisis” series, that gender ideologues would rather ignore. Detransitioners like me are exposing the ugly truth of gender medicine. We are proof that so-called “gender-affirming” treatments are not reversible or temporary.

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And most importantly, we are proof that medical interventions do not fix things underlying mental trauma present in such a gender-confused youth. If anything, these interventions actually make things worse, as the scars on my wrists and chest can attest.

But for the first time in years, I have hope that things will change.

This month, President-elect Trump is set to return to the White House, where he has vowed to take swift action against institutionalized “gender-affirming care.” It can 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.

Guarding the door is guarding. Expanding access to the “affirmative only” model of medical fraud only increases the number of detransitioners like me. Hurt children become grieving adults. Vulnerable populations like those suffer from mental illnessand especially children, deserve our protection – even if they need the protection of activist doctors or themselves.

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Trump may also direct his HHS to pressure medical organizations and providers to move away from “gender-affirming care” altogether—the exact opposite of what Biden’s HHS did when it forced the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH ) to remove age limit guidelines from their treatment recommendations.

Unlike the Biden administration, the Trump administration will have science—and common sense—on its side. Detailed report from United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) confirmed last year what many de-transitioners like myself have been saying for years: that “gender-affirmed care” for minors has insufficient evidence and has lifelong consequences.

Many of the studies that activists and doctors relied on to justify these interventions were “exaggerated or misrepresented,” wrote the report’s author, Hilary Cass. Lies and misrepresentations have no place in healthcare.

Truth is consistent. One cannot successfully rage against reality; eventually it will catch up with your lie. The doctors lied to the detransitionists, and we, the patients, pay the price when reality knocks.

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But Trump should not stop at just eliminating the spread of harmful practices. The new president also suggested he would work with the Republican-controlled Congress to pass legislation that would “permanently halt the use of federal taxpayer dollars to promote or pay for” medical gender interventionsand ban what he rightly calls “child sexual mutilation” in all 50 states.

If such laws had been on the books when I was a child, I would still have my healthy body intact. I wouldn’t have to suffer from vaginal atrophy and dryness from years of testosterone injections. I would not end up a lifelong medical patient.

There are many other children and young people who will suffer similar consequences. According to the medical nonprofit Do No Harm, at least 13,395 minors in the U.S. underwent some type of “gender reassignment” procedure between 2019 and 2023. The youngest patients were 7 years old. And everyone will suffer physical and psychological harmful consequences for life.

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The new administration has a chance to stop this disaster in its tracks. America’s youth can and must be protected—from activists who want to exploit them for ideological goals, from health care providers who can profit from invasive and expensive medical interventionseven from themselves and their own confusion.

I am living proof of what happens when those in leadership positions do not take this accusation seriously. I can only hope that my story, and the stories of tens of thousands of other detransitionists, will no longer be ignored.

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