The Supreme Court did the right thing. I know because I was part of a horrifying gender transition

A detransitioner shares her experience after the Supreme Court's Skrmetti decision, highlighting harmful medical interventions she received as a vulnerable teen

Prisha Mosley is an Independent Women ambassador and detransitioner. IW Features, the storytelling platform of Independent Women, featured Prisha’s story as part of its "Identity Crisis" docu-series, which highlights the irreversible harms of gender ideology. Prisha’s story, including her pregnancy journey, was documented in two parts, which can be found  and . 

I believed the lies my doctors told me because I was vulnerable from abuse and trauma. By the time I was 14, I’d been raped, became pregnant, and suffered a miscarriage. By 16, I had been diagnosed with anorexia, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder and was hospitalized for depression and self-harm. I tried to kill myself several times. A medical resident talked with me — once — and suddenly decided, despite all my other documented physical and mental health struggles, that my real trouble was a "gender-identity crisis."  None of my delusional beliefs were questioned, despite a history of severe mental illness and impairment that impacted my ability to perceive reality. Even though I was in treatment for a body-dysphoric disorder, I was simultaneously told to pursue gender-transition procedures for believing that I was a boy. 

 At the beginning, these efforts were hidden from my parents. When they finally did find out, healthcare providers bullied them into giving consent with lies that had no basis in reality. They said that the trauma responses I was describing were "gender dysphoria," greenlighting me for testosterone at age 17. At 18, I underwent a double mastectomy. It all happened so fast, but it took my mind years to become well enough for me to even realize what damage had been done.  I still live with that damage and the life-altering consequences of the unnecessary drugs and surgery I was given. The testosterone changed me — not only my appearance, but the very structure of my body. My endocrine system doesn’t function without external hormones now. And I can’t regulate my hormones on my own. I won’t ever be able to nurse my own children because they removed my healthy breasts.