Detransitioner outlines policies to prevent the medical transition of minors
Claire Abernathy, a 21-year-old detransitioner, is advocating for policies to prevent minors from undergoing medical transitions. She emphasizes the need for enforcement of laws banning such treatments and highlights her own negative experiences with medical transition. Lawmakers are responding to the growing concerns by passing legislation and establishing clinics to support detransitioners.
- ▪Abernathy began her medical transition at 14 and is now urging lawmakers to protect minors from similar experiences.
- ▪More than two dozen states have enacted laws banning gender transition drugs and surgeries for minors.
- ▪The Texas Children’s Hospital has agreed to a $10 million settlement to create the first-ever detransition clinic.
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Claire Abernathy was put on testosterone at 14, had a double mastectomy before she was in high school, and was fighting to have her medical transition reversed by 17. Now 21, she is detransitioning and urging lawmakers to help protect minors in the future from medical transitions, to enforce consequences on the medical industry, and to navigate care for detransitioners. A growing number of detransitioners, or people who say they regret the medical steps they took to transition genders as adults or teenagers, are speaking out about their experiences amid a national debate over the wisdom of pediatric gender medicine. Some detransitioners have spoken out about their rushed treatment plans and mental health problems that did not resolve after taking hormones or undergoing surgeries.
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