Thread by @kelseybolar

🧵NEW: A few weeks ago, Prisha Mosley lifted her sweater to show the scars from the “top surgery” she got when she turned 18. All of her breast tissue is gone, her chest is completely flat, hair is still growing and her nipples feel like they're not her own.

“I didn’t understand that they were going to be fully cutting them off, resizing them and reattaching them,” Prisha told @IWF in our latest #IdentityCrisis documentary feature. “I almost lost them. I did lose a little bit of them.”

Documenting the aftermath of her double mastectomy was raw and painful. I asked again and again, “Are you sure?” But Prisha said it was worth it to “expose” herself because looking back, she knows what happened to her was wrong. And she doesn’t want it to happen to anyone else.

By telling her story, Prisha believes she can save others from her mistakes. Mistakes that most unbiased observers would blame not on her, but on the team of providers who recommended testosterone and “top surgery” to a young girl with a well-documented history of mental illness.

Mosley suffered from severe anorexia, OCD, borderline personality disorder, anxiety, and depression. According to medical records reviewed by @IWF, healthcare professionals recommended Mosley for in-patient care. She was hospitalized for suicide attempts.

Despite this, the moment Mosley decided she was "trans," the same health care providers treating her for severe anorexia and a slew of mental illnesses approved cross-sex hormones and surgery.

“The minute I said the word gender, they were all over me,” Prisha said. “I was being medicalized so fast.”

Mosley's eating disorder was so severe, she also asked to get liposuction. That, they wouldn’t do.

“Apparently when you have a mental disorder, changing your body isn’t the answer. Liposuction is not a treatment for anorexia, but surgery is a treatment for gender dysphoria.”

Mosley's parents didn't believe their daughter was trans but felt they had no choice but to go along w/the doctors.

“We were told what to do or our child will die,” said her mom. Her dad described it as a “hostage situation where you look at the gunman and then nod your head.”

Now 24, Mosley's back to living as a woman—as much as her body will allow. She's in dialectical behavior therapy to manage her borderline personality disorder and suicidal ideations. Mosley credits that therapy w/ saving her life and allowing her to start her journey to healing.

I reached out to Mosley’s former providers, none of whom expressed sympathy or regret for her experience. (Many refused to answer at all.) Responsibility? Nah. They were just following standard guidelines.

“Looking back, I was so clearly not well,” Prisha said.

“I can’t believe it,” she added. “What was in it for the doctors? Did they genuinely think they were helping and there’s no research, or was it just about money?”

I can't answer that because none of her providers would engage in a conversation with me.

Because of her transition, Prisha said she's now left to “accept the scraps of the life I could have had” and mourn what's lost.

“The trans community tells you to kill your old self. It’s your dead name,” she said. “I literally feel like I killed a child, and it was me.”

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WATCH Mosley tell her story here

READ it here @EpochTimes (there's so much more I couldn't fit in this thread) theepochtimes.com/mentally-ill-t…

And consider donating to Prisha's GoFundMe to raise money for breast reconstruction surgery.

(Fun fact: Insurance covered her hormones to "transition," but won't cover the estrogen she now needs to counter the effects.) gofundme.com/f/Prishas-brea…