Mick Hartley

Equally infuriating is the way harrowing stories such as this one from detransitioners were suppressed because their stories might “harm” the trans community. Young people who regretted irreversible medical damage were treated not as victims deserving compassion, but as inconvenient obstacles to an ideological narrative.

“She then told my mom that if I matured through male puberty, the prejudice and worsening mental health would be so crushing that around 60 percent of kids in my position would choose to kill themselves rather than live that way. Since then, my mom and I have discussed that appointment at length, and she still remembers that warning. It’s still so emotional for her that she rarely talks about it. My mom had watched me struggle for years—coming home from school in tears, and withdrawing more and more into myself. And here was a professional, in a clinical setting, telling her that the alternative to medical transition was her child’s death. My mom says she was so ultra-focused on the suicide risk that it became her top concern: She just wanted to keep me alive.”

Original article here.