I began 'gender transition' at 16. I was lied to in a terrible way. Now I am seeking justice

I began medicalized 'gender affirming' care when I was just 16-year-old. I trusted my health care providers and but wound up with a severely damaged body.

Starting when I was 16 years old, and continuing into my teen and young adult years, doctors and counselors set me on a path of medicalized "gender transition." They told me that changing my body to look like a boy’s body would cure my mental health problems. They told me that injecting large amounts of testosterone into my female body would be good for me. They also encouraged me to undergo surgery to remove my healthy breasts.

I trusted these health care providers to take care of me. Because of that relationship of trust, and my vulnerable condition, I believed what they said and I thought they were treating me properly.