A young woman who transitioned as a teenager testified in favor of a Tennessee ban that prohibits sex change procedures on children.
The bill, SB0001, “prohibits a healthcare provider from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
Prisha Mosley, 24, who testified during the state Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Tuesday, said that she discovered the transgender community online at the age of 15, according to The Daily Wire.
“A lot of the things I heard really rang true with me. Like, ‘You are trans if… You hate your body, you don’t feel comfortable with it, you want to be a different person,’” she said in an interview with The Epoch Times in 2022.
She added, “With everything I was going through, I thought that if I aligned my body with my brain or something like that, I would feel better.”
She then began the process of transitioning at 17 after she was prescribed a “high dose” of testosterone. A year later, Mosley had her “healthy breasts cut off” after undergoing a double mastectomy.
Mosley, who was a victim of sexual assault and suffered borderline personality disorder, depression, anorexia, and other psychiatric issues, said that her trauma was dismissed when she “uttered the word gender,” according to The Daily Wire.
“My therapist even attested that all of my problems were caused by being ‘born in the wrong body.’ This wasn’t true, but I was medicalized anyway,” she recalled.
Mosley said she supports the ban after suffering the affects of taking long-term testosterone such as hair loss, damaged vocal chords, “zapping pain” on her scarred chest, and the potential inability to ever be able to conceive a child.
“I decided that I did not want to be a woman before I had ever gotten to be one,” She explained. “I was a little girl, now I will never know what it is fully like. I fully support a bill that protects youth from the undeniable harm caused by so-called ‘gender affirming care.’”
Mosley also said she hopes this law will hold those who harmed her accountable and that it will protect other children from being harmed as well.
“As a detransitioned adult I recognize the importance that civil action laws like this would provide in holding the people accountable who did this to me as a child and preventing other children from being harmed,” she said.