So what message do I want to bring to American teenagers and their families?

I didn't need to be lied to.

I needed a compassion.

I needed to be loved.

I needed to be given therapy to help me work through my issues, not affirm to my delusion

that by transforming into a boy, it would solve all my problems.

We need to stop telling twelve-year-olds that they are born wrong, that they are right

to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable with their own skin.

We need to stop telling children that puberty is an option.

I think you can choose what kind of puberty they will go through, just they can choose

what clothes to wear, or what music to listen to.

Puberty is a right of passage to adulthood, not a disease to be mitigated.

Today, I should be at home with my family, celebrating my 19th birthday, and instead

I'm making a desperate plea to my elected representatives.

Learn the lessons from other medical scandals like the opioid process.

To recognize that doctors are human too, and sometimes they are wrong.

My childhood was ruined, along with thousands of de-transitioners that I know through our networks.

This needs to stop.

You alone can stop it.

Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience.

Please let me be your final warning.

Thank you.

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