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Last year, a series of Yelp reviews surfaced on social media, written by a young man named Yarden Silveira. Silveira was a detransitioner—a person who once identified as transgender but no longer does—who suffered severe complications from gender-related genital surgery. In these reviews, he castigated his doctors, claiming they had mistreated him. Yarden died only two months after posting the reviews. Their discovery briefly made waves on social media, but details of Yarden’s life and death remained obscure, hidden behind multiple aliases and a vanished online presence.

Last month, Simon Price graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. But his last semester in school turned into an ugly scene after he was assigned a project for a class called "Songwriting and Social Change." The project was to put together a public event about a social issue the student felt passionate about. White other students did projects about homelessness and eating disorders, Price decided he would talk about his own experience living as a trans person for 3 years before detransitioning.In middle school, my peers targeted me with homophobic bullying. They called me slurs, threatened me,...

How does the transgender ideology driving permanently body-altering “treatments” affect real people who regret their transitions? One detransitioner told her tragic story as a victim of the woke insanity prioritized over science and truly compassionate care. One theme among detransitioners is that they identified as transgender during a point in puberty when they were uncomfortable with their changing bodies. Instead of being encouraged to embrace their bodies, they were encouraged to believe that they should masquerade as the opposite sex and cut off body parts. Some of them were even told that they inevitably would commit suicide or experience other...

A UCLA student is suing multiple California health care providers and hospitals for medical negligence, alleging she was wrongly diagnosed with gender dysphoria and then “fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery, according to her lawsuit. Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, said she experienced sexual abuse as a young child, and by the time she was 11, she “began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy,” according to her suit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior...

A 20-year-old woman who says she was forced her into a sex change at age 12 has taken action against a controversial transgender youth doctor. Clementine Breen filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Los Angeles-based doctor Johanna Olsen-Kennedy on Thursday, claiming she was rushed into irreversible treatment to become male beginning at age 12, which may have left her infertile. The contentious lawsuit also alleges Olsen-Kennedy - the medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles - administered Breen's care without performing psychological testing or monitoring her mental health and the side...

A 20-year-old woman has accused Planned Parenthood of rushing her into a gender transition when she was 18, leaving her with lifelong side effects. Cristina Hineman has filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest single provider of abortion, contraception, reproductive care, and sex education. The organization has in recent years also become a leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults, offering the service at more than 400 locations. At least 40,000 patients have gone to Planned Parenthood for hormone treatment this year. Hineman claims she was given a prescription for testosterone following a 30-minute consultation with...

Judge Robert Ervin ruled that 25-year-old Prisha Mosley's medical malpractice lawsuit for breast removal and testosterone injections she was talked into at age 16 is legally viable, in what is thought to be the first ruling of its kind. (LifeSiteNews) — A North Carolina judge has ruled that a 25-year-old woman’s lawsuit against the doctors who “transitioned” her as a teenager can proceed, opening a door to a potentially transformative precedent for the American medical establishment. The Washington Examiner reports that Prisha Mosley was talked into “transitioning” at just 16 years old to deal with serious mental issues she was...

Megyn Kelly said, 'I realize now I was part of this problem. My heart was in the right place. I wasn't trying to push anything bad on the kids. I thought I was being supportive of them. I thought I was promoting anti-bullying.' (LifeSiteNews) — Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has expressed contrition for having once supported transgender ideology. Having interviewed Isabelle Ayala, a 21 year old detransitioner first took cross-sex hormones at 14, and Ayala’s lawyer Jordan Campbell, Kelly made a passionate speech. “Remember that segment I did on the pronouns … when I was at NBC?” she...

In a recent interview with Fox News, former transgender influencer and author Oli London discussed the pressing issue of pushing gender-affirming ideology onto young children. Here’s the whole story. Gender Madness London, who once identified as a Trans woman and underwent a gender transition, now stands as an advocate against the ideology he believes is harmful to children In his interview with “Fox & Friends First,” London said, “I’ve been through the transition process before. I’ve struggled with gender identity, and now I’ve really witnessed what is going on right now.” “Adults can make decisions on their own, and we...

Famous detransitioner Chloe Cole is being praised for debunking TV “scientist” Neil deGrasse Tyson’s latest screed against biological science. She performed the debunking in a Twitter video she uploaded Tuesday. In the video, she played clips from a TikTok that Tyson had posted in May and then refuted every single one of the “points” he’d made. Watch: CLICK ABOVE ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Her video began with a clip of Tyson ranting about chromosomes. “Apparently, the XX/XY chromosomes are insufficient because when we wake up in the morning, we exaggerate whatever feature that we want to portray the gender...

A young man who formerly identified as a transwoman after being castrated by doctors has warned others not to follow in his footsteps. The young man, known only as Kobe, has revealed how he bitterly regrets his decision to transition and was told to 'play the suicide card' by older trans people in order to receive treatment. He began puberty blockers at 13, had his testicles removed at 19 - and now suffers from severe spinal pain he fears could be osteoporosis, with puberty blockers linked to bone injuries. Speaking to Fox News, he has detailed how despite his thoughts...

A young North Carolina woman is suing the medical team that put her on testosterone at age 17 and surgically removed her breasts the next year, saying she was fast-tracked into transgender care for profit when she really needed therapy. Prisha Mosley, 25, says she was confused and battling mental health problems when clinicians suggested cross-sex hormones and a double breast removal after brief consultations, one lasting only minutes. In her 53-page complaint, she says her doctors 'lied', including by saying testosterone jabs would solve her problems and make her 'grow a penis.' She has since decided to 'detransition' and...

A man who transitioned to become a woman when he was just 19 has laid bare his pain and heartbreak following the decision that 'destroyed' his life. Daniel Black, who is now 23, says he 'misses his genitals every day' after he took the drastic step to have transgender surgery before he had even reached 20 years old. The salon-owner is one of a growing number of people who have decided to detransition after life-changing surgery or hormone drugs. Daniel decided to become a woman after bullies at school made him doubt his masculinity and sexual orientation. He claims that...

“There are a few reasons we are allowed to deny requests for building use,” the Addison Northwest Supervisory District superintendent said. “Disagreeing with a group’s views is not one of them.” On June 20, conservative activist Walt Heyer, who previously identified as a trans woman and now advocates against gender-affirming care practices, will speak in Vergennes. At an evening seminar — titled “Transgender ‘Care’/Helpful or Harmful?” — Heyer will outline his criticisms of gender-affirming treatments, according to an event flyer, including an argument that using trans people’s preferred pronouns can be damaging. The venue? A public school — specifically, Vergennes...

“I thought womanhood was unsafe before ever experiencing it,” Prisha Mosley told The Post. “I was afraid of a life I hadn’t tasted yet. Now I don’t get to be a woman, fully, and I will never know what it’s like.” The 25-year-old is transitioning back to being a woman after, she said, she was failed by medical professionals who led her down the path to testosterone injections and a double mastectomy by age 18. Prisha said she was rushed through gender transition after being convinced — by activists and therapists — that being born in the wrong body was...

Transgenderism is being portrayed as a progressive form of self-expression by the political, media, and business complex, but it is also damaging and marring — in many cases irreparably — the girls who come into contact with it. This series is exploring some of the cruelty experienced by people who have interacted with the “cyber-sect” of radical gender ideology, through testimony in their own words. About 20 percent of Generation Z is likely to identify on the “LGBTQQIP2SAA” spectrum, and “LGBTQIA+” identification overall has become much more common in the United States in the past decade, according to 2022 polling...

"I thought that if I changed how I was perceived socially and how I was treated socially, then that was going to improve everything else in my life."Michelle Zacchigna is one of a growing number of women who are suing their medical providers for giving them a misdiagnosis of gender dysphoria and then mistreating them. Zacchigna had her uterus and breasts removed, rendering her infertile. She is 35 years old and lives north of Toronto.Michael Shellenberger: You are the first known detransitioner in Canada to sue their health care providers. Can you describe your lawsuit?Michelle Zacchigna: I believe there’s a...

Detransitioner 18-year-old Chloe Cole has announced her lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente … could this be the beginning of the end of these ‘clinics’ transitioning minors? BREAKING: It’s official. Chloe Cole (@ChoooCole) has announced a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente, the hospital and medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor, after her Notice of Intent to Sue in November was ignored by defendants.https://t.co/e79PNzFYNb — Christina Buttons (@buttonslives) February 23, 2023 Give ’em Hell, Chloe. From The Daily Wire: Chloe Cole, a detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced the first official lawsuit in the U.S. against the hospital and affiliated medical group...

"I haven't found one person that actually has gender dysphoria," Walt Heyer said. "I have found that they have generalized dysphoria." Walt Heyer, one of the first transgender women when he transitioned four decades ago, has long since transitioned back to male. Today he rejects the notion that there can be a transgender person, arguing a person struggling with gender dysphoria almost always an underlying issue. "People who identify this way are struggling with either bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, body dysmorphia, depression, or some underlying comorbid issue," Heyer said on "The New Foundation for American Greatness," a Just the News special...

Chris Beck described those who embrace and promote transgender ideology as a 'cult' that brings people into the fold through 'love bombing' and propagandizing. (LifeSiteNews) – A former member of SEAL Team Six who famously “transitioned” in an effort to become a woman a decade ago and who has since “detransitioned” is speaking out about the dangers of transgender ideology, manipulation by its proponents, and the grave harm it is doing to children and young people. Chris Beck, who for a time was known as “Kristen,” recounted in a wide-ranging two-hour interview with conservative commentator Robby Starbuck how he was...