UK girl who detransitioned after transgender surgery says she feels ‘like a mutilated experiment gone wrong’
According to a report in the Telegraph, a girl from the United Kingdom who had her breasts removed as part of a medical gender change is criticizing the gender clinic involved with her care.
Jasmine is a former Travistock gender clinic patient who regrets the medical interventions that were made to change her gender. The girl said that she felt worse at each stage of transitioning.
She said, “I’m not sure what it feels like to be an adult.”
Jasmine stated that she relied on medical professionals.
She said, “When people know that I am de-transitioned, they frame it as a trip, but I wouldn’t consider it one… I think it was an error I made, but because I was still a child, I believe that part of it is also on the professionals who treated me.”
Jasmine reported that after a few sessions, she was referred to medical and surgical sex-change interventions. She underwent surgery at 15 to remove her breasts.
I sometimes feel like a mutilated experiment that has gone wrong, walking around in society. Sometimes I feel jealous of women who are genetically female. They still have their own natural voice and their own natural characteristics. “I don’t have it anymore,” she said.
Travistock, the gender clinic Jasmine visited, is working to close down and change its practices fundamentally after an independent pediatrician’s critical review.
Keira Bell is another Travistock patient who has publicly spoken out about the detransitioning process and criticized the clinic. She said that she wished the staff had been more aggressive in their criticism of transitioning treatments.
“By time I reached the Tavistock I was convinced that I had to make the transition. This is typical teenage behavior. In reality, I was a girl who was insecure about her body, had been abandoned by her parents, was alienated by my peers, was suffering from anxiety and depression and was struggling with my sexuality,” she wrote in a blog.
After a series superficial conversations with social workers I was placed on puberty blocking drugs at the age of 16. One year later I started receiving testosterone injections. “At 20, I had a bilateral mastectomy,” said the woman. The more I progressed in my transition, the more I realized I was never a man and would never be.
Bell changed her mind five years after beginning the medical transformation. As she matured, Bell realized that gender dysphoria wasn’t the cause of her misery but was rather a symptom.
Bell, who was on testosterone at the time, said that she could not cry out her pain and felt relieved to finally be able to express herself.
“One of my first signs I was becoming Keira was that, finally and thankfully, I could cry. “I had many reasons to cry.”
Bell stated that she was unsure of how the treatments had affected her fertility and she fears she has lost “a basic right” to be in a position to have children.
“Before starting testosterone, I had to decide if I would like children or freeze my eggs, because I was worried that the transition could make me infertile. In my teens, I could not imagine myself having children… but now, as an adult, I realize that I did not fully understand the implications of infertility. “Having children is my basic right and I’m not sure if it has been taken away from me.”
Bell claimed that the testosterone caused her to have a permanent, deeper voice as well as facial hair.
What happened to me happens all over the Western world.
Travistock didn’t immediately respond to our request for a comment.
Hannah Grossman is a Fox News Digital Associate Editor.
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