It’s Not Hateful To Advocate For Ethical Medicine

People accuse me of hating people with trans identities because I advocate for ethical and evidence-based medicine for them.

My name is Prisha Mosley. I am 27 years old, a mother, and a detransitioner. I am a detransitioner because of a traumatic childhood.

When I was 14 years old, I experienced a sexual assault. I struggled with an eating disorder, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and by age 16 I had adopted a trans identity. Doctors made note of my distress with my period and my desire to be a boy and began to lead me down a pathway of permanent destruction and loss of health.

I believed my doctors when they told me that girls could become boys and women could become men. I believed them when they described the symptoms of my testosterone-induced hormonal imbalance — hot flashes, severe acne, weight gain, and ovarian cysts — as “male puberty.” I believed them when they told me that removing my breasts was “life-saving care” and that I needed to do so to avoid my own suicide.

I was not in a good enough place or old enough to understand that I was being medically abused. I didn’t understand that insulin was a hormone or that my levels of insulin would be impacted by the use of testosterone, when my pediatrician intentionally put me into hormonal imbalance for the purpose of changing the way that I appeared. Now I have pre-diabetes as a result of their actions. I didn’t know that I wasn’t being informed or that I was being lied to when I gave “informed consent.” I genuinely believed that I was going to change sex and be relieved of my mental and emotional distress, as transition promised.

What happened to me is not a unique case. No child is born in the wrong body, and every doctor who tells a healthy child that they were “born wrong” is misleading them at best, but more likely is trying to turn a profit. Humans come in male and female and cannot change sex. Sex is determined at fertilization and cannot be changed, no matter what a doctor promises or does to your body. Any distressed patient who has been told that they can change sex or that cosmetic changes to the secondary sex characteristics are a cure for distress is being defrauded. No one deserves it.

When I advocate and work with lawmakers to ban “gender-affirming care” for minors, it is not because I hate them, it is because I believe they deserve better. People with trans identities deserve ethical healthcare based on evidence, not pseudoscience and false promises. A growing body of evidence shows that the treatments pushed on trans-identified patients are not living up to their promises. In fact, they are leaving devastating, lasting physical damage.  That’s why other countries now recommend against these treatments. It’s why they should stop here too. People with trans identities don’t deserve to be experimented on or to lose healthy body parts when they are vulnerable.

I was wronged by my doctors when I needed help. I was defrauded and medically harmed. I did not change sex. I didn’t deserve to lose my healthy breasts or my functioning endocrine system or to be made false promises when I was desperate. This is true for every person with a trans identity. No one is born in the wrong body.

It is with love that I advocate for the truth and for better health care, not hate. True hate comes in the form of the doctors who take advantage of suffering people and sell them a bill of goods instead of healing them. It is hateful to sell a lie, and lying about someone’s sex is a lie that can lead to total devastation, like it did for me.

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 here and here. 

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