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I Lived The Systemic Medical Abuse Of Trans Kids Detailed In New Federal Report

A new HHS report details allegations of deceptive billing practices, questionable diagnoses, and financial incentives surrounding so-called transgender ‘medicine.’

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I was just 11 years old when I decided I hated my body — my whole identity, really.

My struggles had begun years earlier. I started therapy in first grade after developing what I can only describe as all-consuming thoughts about death. Then puberty came earlier for me than for most of my classmates. As school kids do, they bullied me for it. I was consumed by thoughts of suicide.

So I turned to the internet for comfort. I scrolled through countless forums, including Tumblr, Instagram, and everything in between, to find an outlet for my insecurities. That’s how I stumbled upon Tumblr posts about LGBT identities. 

Because of my ongoing struggle, I found it helped to try on this new persona of being a boy. At this time, I was 12 years old. I confided in my therapist, who affirmed my so-called gender identity and never told my parents. Before I knew it, I was fast-tracked to “transition.” When I was 13, I was put on testosterone, and a surgeon removed my healthy breasts.

More than a decade later, the Department of Health and Human Services is exposing the medical system that allowed stories like mine to unfold. Its new report, “Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited From the Fraud of ‘Gender Medicine,’” details allegations of deceptive billing practices, questionable diagnoses, and financial incentives surrounding medical interventions on gender-distressed children. What happened to me was intensely personal, but the report makes clear why the questions raised by my experience are much larger than one patient or one doctor. 

I was convinced “transition” was the right decision and that it would finally make me happy. I was still young and learning who I was. I was impressionable, searching, and uncomfortable in my own skin. I was confused, vulnerable, and looking for relief from feelings I did not yet have the language to understand. What I needed........

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