Medicine shuns gender detransitioners like me — but we deserve to be heard and helped

When I was 12, I tried to transition my gender.

Everyone supported me.

Therapists told me I was doing the right thing.

Doctors put me on puberty blockers and then cross-sex hormones before cutting off my breasts — a double mastectomy.

My parents’ health insurance covered everything.

The medical establishment believed I should transition, based on the idea of “gender-affirming care.”

The message I got was loud and clear: Transitioning was the best decision I’d ever made.

At age 16, I realized I’d made a mistake.

Read more at the New York Post.