Weeks before the Supreme Court evaluates Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical interventions for gender-confused youth, more than a dozen formerly transgender youth and the mother of a girl who killed herself after a gender transition are sharing their and their families’ transition regrets and consequences in friend-of-the-court briefs.
Prominent detransitioners on the brief include Chloe Cole and Luka Hein, each suing providers who performed their transition; Maia Poet, who fled her parents in the U.S. to live as a man in Israel and escaped the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack through a “last-minute change in plans”; and Abel Garcia, who led outreach to Spanish-speaking physicians on behalf of the gender-critical Alliance for Mental Health at the recent Academy of American Pediatrics conference.
AAP booted Cole, Garcia and other detransitioners from their conference booth and reject a “virtual pass” to the event held by Nikki Johnson, director of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism’s medical project.
FAIR reportedly ruffled feathers at its AAP booth last year with Cole and St. Louis pediatric gender clinic whistleblower Jamie Reed.
The signatories on the brief say they were recruited through “individual citizens coming together and using their network to organize and sign” and “living proof of how gender affirming care harmed them” and that other signatories are “risking their professional reputation” as physicians, psychologists, healthcare professionals and public officials to support them. […]
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