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‘Detransitioners’ Are Being Abandoned By Medical Professionals Who Devastated Their Bodies And Minds
The Federalist ^ | 02/10/2023 | Kelsey Bolar

Posted on 02/10/2023 9:46:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Health providers won’t help detransitioners who seek to undo the damage of transgender surgery and hormones.

After being swarmed by health providers who enabled her to medically transition as a minor, Prisha Mosley now says she’s been abandoned by the medical community as she attempts to navigate a complicated and painful detransition.

“I was under the impression that my doctors, who were transitioning me, loved me. They said they didn’t want me to die, they were saving my life, they were worried about me, and they wanted me to be healthy and happy,” Prisha told me. “Clearly, they don’t love me. As soon as it’s not profitable, they don’t want to help.”

Prisha has a slew of medical complications dating back to the more than five years she spent on testosterone and a double mastectomy that a plastic surgeon performed shortly after she turned 18. Many of those complications surround her endocrine system, which encompasses the hormones that regulate nearly every process in the body, from metabolism to growth and development, emotions, mood, sexual function, and sleep.

“I was hoping that if I could get my endocrine system working, I could be on less psychiatric medicine because low testosterone and estrogen will cause depression and anxiety, both of which I’m medicated for and don’t really like being medicated for,” she said.

Prisha also hopes that with estrogen supplements, she’ll experience some muscle and fat redistribution. After years of testosterone broadened her neck and shoulders, she now carries more weight in her upper body, which causes her chronic pain. Her throat is sore, she can no longer sing or raise her voice, and she suffers hair loss, as well as hair growth on her body, which she has to treat with costly laser hair removal sessions.

Another side-effect Prisha is seeking medical attention for is severe sexual dysfunction, which is so bad, she says she can no longer use tampons.

“I used to be able to, and now I can’t,” she said. “And that sucks. There’s pain, there’s irregular periods, and atrophy.”

No Medical Professionals Will Help

Hormonal care to fix her endocrine system, she hopes, could help her become more feminine — and perhaps fertile again. But she said every primary care physician, endocrinologist, obstetrician, and gynecologist she’s approached on her insurance list has turned her away or said they can’t help.

“I could call and be rejected every single day,” according to Prisha.

Professional organizations that represent many of these providers claim to offer open, inclusive, supportive care for “transgender” and “gender diverse” individuals. That offering, it appears, doesn’t apply to individuals seeking to detransition.

Prisha isn’t the only detransitioner who feels abandoned by the medical institutions that pushed her into wrong-sex hormones and surgery. Over the past year, Independent Women’s Forum has documented multiple stories of detransitioners who also report being abandoned by medical and mental health professionals after deciding to detransition.

“I reached out to every physician, every therapist who is involved with this, and I haven’t really gotten any help at all,” said Chloe Cole, an 18-year-old who was fast-tracked down a medical transition as a child by a team of eager doctors. Left to navigate the detransition process on her own, Chloe stopped taking testosterone “cold turkey,” and is still struggling with urinary and other complications that doctors have yet to help fix.

Cat Cattinson, a woman who medically transitioned to a wrong-sex identity in her 20s before realizing it was a major mistake, said access to medical care from providers who are knowledgeable is one of the major barriers detransitioners face:

Because of the experimental nature of gender medicine, doctors know very little about the long-term effects of medical transition and even less about the health-care needs of those who detransition. Surgeries, obviously, are irreversible, but hormonal interventions can also have lasting effects requiring treatment to mitigate. Testosterone caused irreversible changes to my vocal cords, resulting in daily discomfort and pain, but most ENTs [ear, nose, and throat doctors] and other voice ‘professionals’ are not informed about how testosterone affects a female voice or how to help someone in my situation.

Prisha doesn’t know why she’s been turned away from so many doctors and medical providers — whether it’s about money, politics, or a lack of knowledge to help. If it’s the latter, one might ask why medical professionals are allowed to put individuals, including minors, on drugs and “treatments” that they’re unable to later undo or address, should that patient change his or her mind.

Whatever the reason, the inability to access medical attention is having a profound effect on Prisha, beyond her physical health.

Prisha’s Mental Health Struggles

Prisha, who attends school in Big Rapids, Michigan, has a long and complicated history with borderline personality disorder, anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses. Now 24, Prisha says she used transitioning as a cover for her deeper-rooted mental health issues.

Since detransitioning, Prisha’s been in dialectical behavior therapy to manage her borderline personality disorder — therapy she credits with saving her life.

“When I treated that, all of the symptoms started getting better,” she said. “Nothing that I did to transition treated those things that were causing me mental suffering.”

But now as a detransitioner, even her therapy treatment is in disarray. A few months back, Prisha lost her health insurance because she couldn’t afford it. Under her new insurance, instead of being charged $10 per therapy appointment, she is being charged $96, an increase she wasn’t aware of for five months. Prisha now owes nearly $3,000 to her therapist, a service she depends on.

Upon going public with her story, Prisha started a campaign to raise money for breast reconstructive surgery, something she wishes to pursue to resolve the “phantom breast syndrome” she often experiences, and to appear more feminine. 

But because the surgery is not deemed “a medical necessity,” Prisha would have to pay for it fully out-of-pocket. She would also need at least two surgeries to stretch her skin and reconstruct her breasts, estimated at more than $11,000 each. During this process, Prisha says she was told she would risk losing her nipples, which her plastic surgeon removed and reattached in more masculine positions.

The dream of breast reconstructive surgery and the $4,000 she’s raised for it thus far were put on hold, as Prisha is left using every penny she has to pay for her therapy and basic health insurance coverage.

“I feel like it’s like a bottomless pit — the medical needs, and I need the therapy because I can barely do this,” she said. “And I’m absolutely not going to, once again, medicalize my body without taking care of my mind.”

Now in debt and being rejected by one doctor after another, Prisha is at a loss for what to do. In an act of desperation, she turned to Plume, a company that has raised millions of dollars to connect patients with physicians who can prescribe them “gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy” online, including a “one-time medical letter of support for surgery with a one week turnaround time” for a fee of $150. But this time, instead of affirming her identity as the opposite sex, Prisha sought the help of Plume to get blood tests and hormone treatments to affirm her true sex: a woman.

Screenshot of Plume website.

After paying $99 and scheduling an appointment with a provider, Prisha said she was “ghosted” 40 minutes before the appointment.

Plume hasn’t responded to Prisha’s requests for an explanation or even a refund. She suspects the provider canceled last minute because Prisha disclosed that she was “detrans” in initial paperwork she completed just minutes before the canceled appointment.

After she submitted her intake forms, “All contact dropped off,” Prisha said. She then took to YouTube to share her devastation.

“I don’t know what to do, I don’t know who to go to because no one will help,” Prisha said through tears. “I was really hoping that they would care about me and help me. I just want to feel better. I just want to be better. I don’t want my body to be like this anymore. I’m in pain. … I can’t take it anymore.”

Independent Women’s Forum reached out to Plume to ask whether the company offers its services to detransitioners. Plume did not respond to our request. 

The situation led Prisha to consider self-medicating. But due to her family history with mental illness and addiction, she’s doing everything in her power to resist that path.  

“I’m feeling pushed to go that route because no doctor will help me,” she said. “It is deeply triggering my [borderline personality disorder] abandonment and rejection issues. It’s really easy to slip into the mindset that everyone hates me, I’m a medical monster, I’m bad and evil, and I deserve this.”

“It’s just being abandoned,” Prisha added. “I feel abandoned.”


Kelsey Bolar is a contributor to The Federalist and a senior policy analyst at Independent Women's Forum. She is also the Thursday editor of BRIGHT, a weekly newsletter for women, and the 2017 Tony Blankley Chair at The Steamboat Institute. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, daughter, and Australian Shepherd, Utah.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: detransition; detransitioners; lgbt; lgbtq; regreters; trans; transgender; transgenderism; transgendr
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1 posted on 02/10/2023 9:46:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This could all have been easily avoided.


2 posted on 02/10/2023 9:49:39 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if there are any legal remedies for these misguided people who are trying desperately to get back on track?


3 posted on 02/10/2023 9:51:03 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dysmorphia is only valid one way?


4 posted on 02/10/2023 9:53:38 AM PST by Irenic
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To: SeekAndFind

It wouldn’t be because a swath of detransitioners committing suicide could be used by these about-to-be-poorer “health providers” to claim that detransitioning makes one suicidal, would it? Profit cults can be very dangerous.


5 posted on 02/10/2023 9:54:21 AM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am making an easy prediction; When some of these
de-transitioned young people become adult and can make a full assessment on how their quality of life has been forever
maimed or ruined, some of these kids will be coming after those doctors.

Some of these de-trans will be unable to work unless at home, so they’ll have a ton of time to sit and think about what the heck really happened. The luckier ones will be able to move along with their lives, without being eaten up with bitterness and rage.


6 posted on 02/10/2023 9:54:37 AM PST by lee martell
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To: NohSpinZone

It is highly likely that these people, or their guardian, signed reams of legal paperwork releasing everybody from liability. You know, like the vaccine.

It is so tragic how people stand by and literally cheerlead these “tranistioners” right into their very own demise. Hell won’t be hot enough for such as these.


7 posted on 02/10/2023 9:56:21 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: SeekAndFind

They should get a clue. The medical establishment has never loved them,but they do love their money.


8 posted on 02/10/2023 10:01:13 AM PST by systemjim ( Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: lee martell

It is actually worse than that.

It is my understanding that those who transition, along with those who detransition, are in for a life of physical pain and suffering. They will never again be free from the damage, no carnage, done to their bodies. A lifetime of physical pain, mental anguish, and likely depression will almost certainly be their constant companion throughout the remaining life. That is, for those who don’t opt for suicide as an escape.


9 posted on 02/10/2023 10:01:22 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: SeekAndFind

The medical profession is every bit as detestable as big Pharma, or drug cartels for that matter. Just as detestable as the government class that help grease the money machine for them…fn return for the kickbacks. As detestable as the military/industrial complex…and as deadly.


10 posted on 02/10/2023 10:01:41 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: SeekAndFind

11 posted on 02/10/2023 10:03:29 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As always, South Park nailed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dD7w7F0a3Q


12 posted on 02/10/2023 10:04:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I’ve learned doctors of ALL kinds will quickly abandon you if you’re not on their full prescription regimen, as well as return often for them to add or at least suggest something else. It’s why I rarely go see them anymore too.


13 posted on 02/10/2023 10:04:50 AM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left hasn’t yet figured out a public stance on this to cover their hypocrisy. Ignoring it is probably the best course for now.

After all, they have criminalized anyone and any effort to counsel homosexuals away from their homosexual behavior.

So one assumes they will have to criminalize any efforts to “de-transition” someone away from transgender mental illness.


14 posted on 02/10/2023 10:05:16 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: lee martell
some of these kids will be coming after those doctors

Considering their mental states, it could result in violence.

15 posted on 02/10/2023 10:06:14 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Obadiah

They can always sue, in spite of any waivers they signed. It all depends on the juries.


16 posted on 02/10/2023 10:06:51 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That photo had me fooled.
I thought I was looking at a pic of a young Latino man with dyed blond hair. I was wondering, where is Prisha’s picture?
If that’s her, that testosterone induced bone structure is there to stay, unless heaven forbid, she put herself through
those bone shaving procedures.

That was mean of the facility to take her money, cancel the appointment and keep her money anyway.
Where do these ‘Doctors’ come from?
A long, long way from TV’s Doctor Marcus Welby


17 posted on 02/10/2023 10:10:27 AM PST by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

Sue the bastards. The Hippocratic oath says, “first do NO HARM,” and they have committed malpractice.


18 posted on 02/10/2023 10:14:35 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: SeekAndFind

Josef Mengele would have admired the determination and dedication of these medical practitioners who have such miracles of mutilation on the young, and they did it all with the willing participation of those who made the decisions for these minor children, without having to pluck them out of the population of death camp prisoners.

The the mutilated victims of their depredations now regret the tortures and disfigurement visited upon them in no way seems to trouble these mini-Angels of Death, as they have this curious belief that they have somehow “saved” these unfortunates from some nebulous looming potential for suicide. But the desperation that once drove these misguided youth pales in comparison to the desperation that now stalks their more adult lives, filled with regrets and no possible recourse currently available.

And not once, has there ever been anything like a remotely possible change from one gender, male, to the counterpart, female, or from female to male. The only transformation possible is from male to neuter, or female to neuter.

Everything else is fantasy.


19 posted on 02/10/2023 10:17:23 AM PST by alloysteel (Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov)
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To: PGR88; Irenic

Irenic,
To the left sexual Dysmorphia is only one way. In the same way that a heterosexual can become homoesexual but a homosexual can never become heterosexual.

PGR88,

Exactly. It is a crime against the left to help people be mentally normal


20 posted on 02/10/2023 10:18:21 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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