Im a detransitioner Congress must stop hospitals abuse of kids like me

The media has focused endless attention on the many kids who are trying to transition genders.But what about the growing number of young adults who are detransitioning — who regret the sex changes that doctors and nurses told us to undergo when we were kids?The young girls and boys who were lied to — who were abused — by the medical system we were told to trust when we were most impressionable, most vulnerable?What about people like me?I ask these questions every day.It’s been eight years since I started to transition—and four years since I started to detransition.I realized my mistake when I was 16 years old.

I’d tried to change genders before I was even a teenager.March 12 is a sad yet meaningful day for people like me.It’s what we call “Detransition Awareness Day.”For the first time, Congress is introducing a resolution to mark this day.

And this week Texas Rep.Dan Crenshaw will introduce a bill to permanently protect kids from being forced down the dark road of gender transitioning.Crenshaw’s bill is closely connected to President Trump’s executive order banning federal funding for any medical facility that provides sex-change treatments to kids.While the president’s order is long overdue, it could easily be overturned by a future administration — and right now, it’s on pause because of federal lawsuits.Kids are still being hurt every day.The new House bill would protect them.

It cuts off, by law, much of the federal funding for children’s hospitals that try to help kids do a sex-change.A huge number of US hospitals perpetrate this medical and moral monstrosity — 54, according to the medical nonprofit Do No Harm.All told, those hospitals gave nearly 14,000 sex-change treatments to kids between 2019 and 2023.More than 5,700 of those treatments were surgeries.Penises cut off.

Vaginas inverted.Breasts removed.The kids who experience this horror will never be able to lead a normal life.I know because it happened to me.When I ...