According to detransitioner Camille Kiefel, doctors have “done it” and “have dismissed” her and different transgender patients who have undergone trans surgery.  ,
” I struggled with youth trauma”, Kiefel told The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan. ” My best friend had been raped by her brother when I was in sixth grade” . ,  ,
A detransitioner is someone who attempts to change to the same sex, finally realized that such an effort is difficult, and “detransitioned”. Many of these people, including Kiefel, claim that doctors and therapists who ignore physiological realities and favour radical ideology betrayed them into inevitable physiological and surgical procedures.  ,
” For me, it was being afraid of being susceptible and wanting to protect myself”, she said, adding:
I really started to identify with the female characters in anime manga reading … trying to reject my sexual identity, dressing more muscular, trying to hide my chest and my shoulders, so that people would n’t see.  ,
Kiefel confirmed that my husband’s tales about “how men his age talk biologically about girls my age” inspired me to do the same.
” It was when I was 26 that I saw a’ sex- affirming care ‘ therapist, and finally started to believe I was intersex, and finally I got operation when I was 30″, she said.
” The crazy thing is that they transitioned me into a nonbinary sex, one that does n’t exist in nature”, she said.  ,  ,
” This freeing thought, with being nonbinary for many people is, like … I can just be me, and I’m not sexualized”, Kiefel explained. It was an idea that she learned in women’s research groups, adding:  ,
The female ideology actually co-opted it. There was a notion that you could have three intercourse.
” I did n’t know what I wanted”, she said. ” I just really wanted my breasts gone” . ,
Explaining the authorization procedure for , getting a double surgery, Kiefel said,” The philosophy says that you can be transgender and have pain. They’re no accounting for the people who are transitioning because of pain … , it’s a home- fulfilling prophecy” . ,
She explained the affirmation she received for the transition, saying,” I actually told the gender therapist what had happened to my friend and yet… but they did n’t push back at all” . ,  ,
” I dealt with all these physical health issues after the surgery”, Kiefel said,” and the doctors took me seriously at first, but then became dismissive when they thought it was psychosomatic fever” . ,  ,
Kiefel took things into her own arms and began working with a naturopath in response to that doctor’s decision to reject her.  ,  ,
” I started adding beef up into my meal and some other alternative solutions”, she , said,” and all of a sudden, I was, like,’ Wow!’ My mental health is getting better” ! ,
” All I needed to do was solve my physical wellbeing, but nobody was doing that because … you’re depressed. …]T] hey just pegged me as someone dealing with mental illness” . ,  ,
After having seen a doctor who treated her like she was wasting her time, the translator said,” I just do n’t feel comfortable reaching out to those doctors.”  ,
” I think a lot of detransitioners have those emotions of, like, we’ve been dismissed. I am aware of many detransitioners who have been told that this is a component of their identity journey, according to Kiefel.  ,
Some detransitioners are suing the medical establishment, accusing them of being coerced into terrible sex-change tests.  ,
Olohan asked Kiefel,” What do you suggest to doctors and professionals who are considering being a part of these so- called female- affirming surgeries and treatments” ? ,  ,
Make sure no one who has experienced severe mental health issues may undergo any of these operations, according to Kiefel,” They need to find their emotional health under control.”
 ,” Specifically with people who have histories with intimate trauma”, she added,” there’s a lot of them who are transitioning …. It’s largely escapism and to safeguard themselves”.  ,
Olohan stated,” It sounds like we need more medical professionals that want to help detransitioners” . ,
Kiefel agreed:” We do” . ,
Olohan papers numerous stories of detransitioners in her guide,” Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult“, due out May 28, an close look at the lived experiences of detransitioners, including the deceitful therapy sessions, botched surgeries, and attempts to construct ghostly body parts.  ,
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