After Double Mastectomy at 15, Grown Detransitioner Trashes the Surgeon Who Disfigured Her

Discern Report ^ | June 17, 2026 | Candace O'Donnell

[Red Badger]

A young woman who trusted the medical establishment with her future now bears the scars of its ideological zealotry. Claire Abernathy, subjected to a double mastectomy as a teenager, has written an unflinching open letter to the surgeon who performed it, declaring that he stole her girlhood and left her to live with the consequences.

Her damning indictment of a medical industry that rushed vulnerable children into irreversible procedures under the banner of “care” reveals the need for sanity.

Abernathy’s story begins in confusion and trauma. At just 14 years old, she was placed on testosterone after a fleeting consultation. Months later, she underwent the life-altering surgery. What should have been a time of innocent discovery and natural development became a conveyor belt of hormones and scalpels.

Today, she lives with a numb, scarred chest, nerve pain that zaps like constant reminders of betrayal, and the haunting realization that healthy parts of her body were amputated before she could even grasp the permanence.

In her letter, posted by Genspect, Abernathy addresses Dr. Alan Dulin directly and without deference. She refuses him the title of “doctor,” calling him instead a man who disfigured children for profit and ideology.

“You stole my girlhood. You killed the woman I was supposed to become,” she writes.

She describes watching grafted nipple tissue turn black and fall away, the disfiguring scars, and the daily agony that followed. These are not abstract regrets; they are the lived reality of experimental medicine imposed on minors.

Dulin, a plastic surgeon in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, performed high volumes of these procedures prior to Texas’s SB14 restrictions. Records placed his practice among top billers for pediatric transgender surgeries.

A 15-minute consultation preceded Abernathy’s mastectomy, between eighth and ninth grade. No deep exploration of underlying issues like trauma or mental health—just swift affirmation and surgery. This pattern echoes across the country, where ideology supplanted careful diagnostics and watchful waiting.

The broader “gender-affirming” enterprise has faced mounting scrutiny. European countries have pulled back on youth transitions after systematic reviews found weak evidence and significant risks. In the United States, lawsuits are proliferating.

Recent verdicts, including multimillion-dollar awards to detransitioners, signal that the house of cards is collapsing. Surgeons and clinics once celebrated for their “progressive” work now confront the human cost: sterilized young people, lifelong medical dependency, and profound regret.

Parents placed trust in experts who promised salvation through transition. Instead, many received a new trauma layered atop existing pain. Abernathy’s case highlights how social contagion, online influences, and institutional pressure funneled distressed girls—often those struggling with same-sex attraction, autism, or abuse—toward medicalization rather than therapy addressing root causes. The irony is stark: an industry claiming to fight “harm” inflicted profound, permanent harm while silencing dissenters as bigots.

This rush to intervene ignored basic biology and developmental reality. Puberty is not a disease to be blocked or surgically altered. It is the natural unfolding of God’s design for the human body—male and female, fearfully and wonderfully made. Young minds lack the maturity to consent to such mutilation, a truth now vindicated by growing numbers of detransitioners finding their voices.

Abernathy has testified before lawmakers and the FTC, naming those responsible. Her courage forces a reckoning. As more victims emerge, the medical establishment’s defense of these practices as “life-saving” rings hollow against the evidence of shattered lives. States restricting these interventions are not denying care but protecting children from predators wielding scalpels in service of delusion.

Jase Medical Medically Prepared What does it profit a medical system to gain the approval of activists while losing the souls and bodies of the young? The Bible warns us of such false shepherds: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20).

In the face of this cultural and medical deception, voices like Abernathy’s remind us that truth and protection of the innocent must prevail over fashionable lies.

Her letter is more than personal catharsis; it is a warning and a demand for justice. The whole world should know what happened in those operating rooms. Accountability for the surgeons, clinics, and ideologues who enabled this is not optional—it is essential to restoring trust in medicine and safeguarding the next generation.

The girlhood stolen from Claire Abernathy and others like her cannot be returned, but their testimony can prevent further theft.

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenera; bigpharma; bigprofit; childabuse; childexploitation; children; idiots; malpractice; medicalmalfeasance; medicalmalpractice; medicalmisconduct; mutilation; quackdoctors; trans

[FLT-bird]

She needs to sue him, the hospital and the insurance company to kingdom come. If I’m on that jury, I award her MASSIVE damages.

The same goes for all the other mutilated children.

[FLT-bird]

She was not an adult. She could not legally consent.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Minors should be able to sue everyone involved, including parents, if they dont like the results when they reach majority.

That would put a stop to a lot of foolishness.

[Wallace T.]

The protection is critical in blue states where the legislatures and courts support the mutilation of children through surgery. I am not a fan of Federal intervention generally, but there needs to be a law that would allow adults subjected to castration, breast removal, and hormone therapy while they were minors to take parents, physicians, and hospitals for civil liability lawsuits. A few successful lawsuits and payouts to the victims would quickly dissuade medical practices from engaging in these activities. On the Federal level, you could arguably state that the procedures were violations of the civil rights of the victims.

[9422WMR]

Thank goodness we had Playboy and Mad magazines back in the 70’s to keep our minds right! 👀👍🏻
It’s the dime store psychology doodlers that are responsible for promoting this garbage!

[Justa]

Blu city blues.

Being a Leftist Tool is supposed to hurt. Yeah, a kid so sympathy but another ‘cautionary tale’ of following the advice of EVIL PPL

[oldtech]

Did the girl originally submit to this with full knowledge of what she was attempting to do and then change her mind after realizing the full result?

[Tellurian]

Did the girl originally submit to this with full knowledge

At 14 years old, she had only a warped idea of the consequences, given to her by the coven of God-deniers that thrive in today's society.

Minors are restricted from making certain decisions on their own for a reason.

[butlerweave]

Plastic surgery does not change you sex

[ealgeone]

Agree.

[FLT-bird]

All someone has to do is move to a different state. Then under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure section 1332 diversity of citizenship, they can sue in federal court (assuming the case or controversy is for $75,000 or more which it would be easily. Federal courts are much less likely to give political protection to the bad actors.

Also, you have to figure Trial Lawyers (a major lobby) will be ALL IN for imposing liability on doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies for the mutilation of children. That would be a lucrative source of money for them so they’ll lobby hard for it.

[Wallace T.]

OK, for sake of argument, assume a victim moves from California, where the mutilation occurred, to Wyoming or Oklahoma after achieving adulthood. It is likely the Federal bench is more conservative in those states than in California. The victim could certainly claim more than $75,000 in damages. However, would a Federal judge, even a conservative one, tell the victim that the case must first be adjudicated in the California state courts?

[FormerFRLurker]

And the left claims that surgeries are never performed on minors and if they are the minors don’t regret it. So more of the “stuff that never happens” just happened again.

[Wuli]

The only appropriate “gender affirming care” is compassionate, sympathetic professional mental health care to assist the individual in affirming their biological gender.

[Tellurian]

A nearly closed loop of God-denying self-important numbskulls came to power (the D faithful). So many of them with government jobs, and so many of them paid way more that their worth - so they conclude that they must be more equal than the rest of us. They are full of hubris and are quick to hate anyone who suggests their self-assigned lofty status or their delusional world view might have faults.

Those numbskulls polluted the culture and dragged any parent or child into their coven of God-denial that they could, by hook or by crook - bamboozled as you said.

[NorthMountain]

At just 14 years old, she was placed on testosterone after a fleeting consultation.

And how did she get to the point of having that "fleeting consultation"? That didn't happen in a vacuum.

A 15-minute consultation preceded Abernathy’s mastectomy, between eighth and ninth grade.

At that age, I already had a deep distrust of "counselors" and "therapists" and the like ... not sure where that came from, but I distinctly recall seeing them as fundamentally malevolent entities in disguise.

[logi_cal869]

“Do no harm”

Take his license…and his reproductive organ.

[napscoordinator]

15-year-olds can be brats. I blame the 15-year-old exclusively. However, the parents share the blame the doctor just what he was told. This-year-old probably would’ve suit him if he didn’t do it.

[Persevero]

Sadly some parents are threatened with the removal of their child if they don’t go along. IDK in this case.

Yeah I’d disappear.

Since our lawmakers can’t seem to completely dismantle the child sexual assault surgical attacks, I suppose lawsuits will have to do the job. Unbelieveable that we are at this point.

[Persevero]

The paperwork will be of no significance when the assault is done on a minor. The parents may have signed away all their rights but the actual victim has not.