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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.

Yarden Silveira was a 23 year old male transgender who suffered immensely due to vaginoplasty and had many complications eventually resulting in death. The doctors refused to help him and would not consider his desire to fix his surgery. He said he had wished he never had the surgery or if he knew what he knew today would never do this. Since the age of 15 he wanted to be a woman. Transitioning and detransitioning are deeply personal processes, and it's crucial that individuals receive support that aligns with their needs and choices at every stage. If a person experiences...