"I was shocked when my thirteen-year-old daughter told me she was really my transgender son.
She had no masculine interests and hated all sports.
But as a smart, quirky teen on the autism spectrum, she had a long history of not fitting in with girls.
Where did she get the idea she was transgender?
From a school presentation—at a school where over 5 percent of the student body called themselves trans or nonbinary, and where several students were already on hormones, and one had a mastectomy at the age of sixteen....I took her to a gender clinician seeking expert guidance.
Instead, he accepted her new identity and told me I must refer to my daughter with masculine pronouns, call her by a masculine name, and buy her a binder to flatten her breasts.
He recommended no therapy, and there was no consideration of the social factors that obviously affected her thinking.
I was directed to put her on puberty blocking drugs.
I was falsely assured that these drugs were well-studied, and that they were a perfectly safe way for her to “explore gender.”
I was told that if I did not comply, she would be at higher risk of suicide.
...My daughter then ran away to Oregon where state law allowed her—at the age of seventeen, without my knowledge or consent—to change her name and legal gender in court, and to undergo a double mastectomy and a radical hysterectomy.
My once beautiful daughter is now nineteen years old, homeless, bearded, in extreme poverty, sterilized, not receiving mental health services, extremely mentally ill, and planning a radial forearm phalloplasty (a surgical procedure that removes part of her arm to construct a fake penis).
The level of heartbreak and rage I am experiencing, as a mother, is indescribable..."
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