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The Hill
09-07-2025
- Health
- The Hill
Gender medicine after Skrmetti: A call for accountability at Northwestern
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's ban on pediatric gender medicine, setting a precedent for similar laws nationwide. At universities like ours, U.S. v. Skrmetti was framed as a triumph of far-right extremism at the expense of vulnerable transgender youth. But some of us at Northwestern welcomed the decision — not as anti-trans activists, but as psychology researchers alarmed by the extent to which ideology has overtaken evidence in mental health care. To us, the verdict presents an opportunity to reexamine a clinical dogma that has captured our field. Seizing this moment, however, will require academia to confront its own entrenched orthodoxies—something Northwestern has shown little interest in doing. Over the past decade, gender dysphoria has surged among adolescent girls, coinciding with a shift in the therapist's role. Clinicians are now expected to affirm clients' gender identities rather than explore the underlying issues. In the rush to validate, practitioners often overlook alternative explanations for gender-related distress. Sexual trauma, for instance, can produce bodily alienation, numbness, and disgust — symptoms easily mistaken for dysphoria. Labeling caution as 'transphobia' diverts traumatized girls away from appropriate care and toward the very sort of irreversible interventions the Supreme Court ruled on in Skrmetti. There are clear reasons young women may reject their bodies that have nothing to do with 'gender identity' as defined by activists. Adolescent girls today navigate a pornified culture that commodifies their sexuality and undermines self-worth. In coursework at Northwestern, we were shown a video series defining 'trans' as anyone who deviates from gender expectations for their 'sex assigned at birth.' But when those expectations are shaped by a misogynistic ethos that eroticizes female pain, it's no surprise some girls try to escape womanhood by suppressing puberty or undergoing double mastectomies. The field of mental health has long misread female trauma. Borderline personality disorder, for instance, is disproportionately assigned to women — especially survivors of sexual abuse. Many detransitioners describe a similar pattern. Young women like Prisha Mosley, Chloe Cole, Luka Hein, and Isabelle Ayala have publicly linked their dysphoria to trauma. Simon Amaya Price, a fellow at Do No Harm, told us he hasn't encountered a single detransitioner whose gender distress had not been trauma-related. While anecdotal, his observation reflects a growing number of cases in which clinicians simply bypass trauma treatment and refer patients directly for life-altering gender procedures. These concerns are being taken seriously in other countries. Long before Skrmetti, several European countries had restricted pediatric gender medicine to clinical trials due to poor evidence and high risk. This shift was driven in part by the Cass Review, a sweeping independent investigation that found major flaws in the research base and recommended psychotherapy — not hormones or surgery — as the first-line treatment. The Cass Review poses a serious challenge to U.S. institutions that still champion the gender-affirming model. Many have dismissed the report, but some of the loudest defenders — such as the American Academy of Pediatrics — now face lawsuits from detransitioners. They are therefore conflicted, as acknowledging the Cass Review's findings could expose them to liability. Even the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, whose Standards of Care shape global policy, is now under fire. Whistleblowers and court filings reveal that the organization suppressed unfavorable data, dropped age minimums for gender-related surgeries under political pressure, and endorsed treatments its own members concede are inadequately studied and potentially harmful. Unfortunately, Northwestern continues to uphold the credibility of such compromised stakeholders, presenting the gender-affirming model as settled science. The university constructs an illusion of expert consensus while promoting experimental practices — and its affiliated hospital profits from gender procedures through the Gender Pathways program, raising questions about conflict of interest. If patient safety isn't enough to prompt reflection, Northwestern's responsibilities as a research university should be. Yet in our experience, critical inquiry is actively discouraged. Students have even been barred from citing the Cass Review, which is dismissed by some faculty as 'debunked,' despite its central role in a Supreme Court decision. As scrutiny grows, so does censorship. When we submitted an op-ed to The Daily Northwestern expressing these concerns, it was rejected without explanation. Days later, the paper revised its policy: All submissions would be reviewed using the Trans Journalists Association Style Guide — a document that prohibits terms like 'biological sex,' 'detransitioner,' 'trans-identified,' and 'gender ideology.' These are not fringe terms. They appear in academic journals, medical literature, and public policy. Their ban in student journalism signals the rise of a gender-newspeak that punishes dissent by attempting to render it unspeakable. This betrays the academic integrity Northwestern claims to uphold — a moral hypocrisy akin to reciting a land acknowledgment while counting cards at a tribal casino. Given its institutional investment in gender-affirming care models, it is unlikely the university will self-correct. But the Skrmetti decision changes the landscape. The ruling legitimizes the voices of clinicians, researchers and detransitioners long silenced by intimidation. It may finally embolden others to speak out — to protect young people and to restore intellectual honesty to institutions lost in the fog of our culture wars. Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman are clinical psychology researchers at Northwestern University.
Yahoo
20-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Young woman who regrets gender transition celebrates Supreme Court decision on youth trans treatments
A young woman who regrets trying to change her gender as a troubled teenager celebrated Wednesday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a Tennessee law banning transgender medical treatments for minors. "I'm really grateful," Independent Women's Ambassador Prisha Mosley told Fox News Digital. Mosley, 27, is part of the growing community of young people who are speaking out about their regrets after undergoing medical treatments to treat their gender dysphoria. After being prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone as a teen and having a double mastectomy, Mosley feels medical professionals preyed on her vulnerability and treated her as an "experiment." As an ambassador for the conservative group Independent Women, she's provided testimony advocating for states, including Tennessee, to enact legislation to stop medical providers from assisting in the gender transition of children. Scotus Rules On State Ban On Gender Transition 'Treatments' For Minors In Landmark Case Mosley told Fox News Digital she wasn't that surprised by the ruling, as she considered the plaintiffs' case weak. Read On The Fox News App "The arguments were not good on the side of this type of harm for minors," she recalled. "And their representation from the ACLU had to admit under oath that 'gender-affirming care' does not even reduce the suicide rate for anyone." Mosley has taken legal action against the medical professionals she says pushed her into gender transition as a teen when she struggled with mental illnesses, including anorexia, OCD, suicidal thoughts and trauma from being raped. She was about 16 years old when she started socially transitioning after being convinced by transgender activists online that she was unhappy because her "body was fighting to be a boy." At 17, medical professionals affirmed this belief and quickly put her on puberty blockers and testosterone. The Supreme Court Did The Right Thing. I Know Because I Was Part Of A Horrifying Gender Transition. She later underwent a double mastectomy and now faces chronic pain and major health problems due to these treatments. She's spent the last several years warning others of the dangers and devastating consequences that can result from hormones and sex reassignment surgeries. "They're completely irreversible. It's impossible to actually have a sex change which children are duped into believing they're having by activists, doctors who are lying. And they lie to you along the entire way with euphemisms and a refusal to use actual medical terminology, but a sex exchange never takes place. All you transition into is a less healthy version of yourself with the same problems that brought you to reject your sex," Mosley told Fox News Digital. She dismissed headlines from some media outlets Wednesday decrying the ruling as a "setback" or "new attack" on transgender rights. Detransitioner Slams Trans 'Psuedoscience' That Doctors Said Would Solve Her Mental Distress: 'It's Quackery' "It's insincere," she reacted to the media coverage. "This ruling is good for people, for children who identify as trans too." She argued the law would protect children who've been caught up in a "social contagion" from being pressured into medical treatments that could leave irreparable changes to their bodies. "And in states that have banned this type of care, they're going to be lawfully protected from doctors who would take advantage of them in their vulnerable state while they have strange beliefs and take away their health and their body parts. And it's now lawful to ban doctors from doing that," she continued. At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That law prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex. It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors— opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court to hear the case on behalf of the parents of three transgender adolescents and a Memphis-based doctor who treats transgender patients. The court upheld the Tennessee law in a 6-3 ruling. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best. Our role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of the law before us… but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process." Fox News' Breanne Deppisch and Bill Mears contributed to this article source: Young woman who regrets gender transition celebrates Supreme Court decision on youth trans treatments
Fox News
19-06-2025
- Health
- Fox News
Young woman who regrets gender transition celebrates Supreme Court decision on youth trans treatments
A young woman who regrets trying to change her gender as a troubled teenager celebrated Wednesday's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a Tennessee law banning transgender medical treatments for minors. "I'm really grateful," Independent Women's Ambassador Prisha Mosley told Fox News Digital. Mosley, 26, is part of the growing community of young people who are speaking out about their regrets after undergoing medical treatments to treat their gender dysphoria. After being prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone as a teen and having a double mastectomy, Mosley feels medical professionals preyed on her vulnerability and treated her as an "experiment." As an ambassador for the conservative group Independent Women, she's provided testimony advocating for states, including Tennessee, to enact legislation to stop medical providers from assisting in the gender transition of children. Mosley told Fox News Digital she wasn't that surprised by the ruling, as she considered the plaintiffs' case weak. "The arguments were not good on the side of this type of harm for minors," she recalled. "And their representation from the ACLU had to admit under oath that 'gender-affirming care' does not even reduce the suicide rate for anyone." Mosley has taken legal action against the medical professionals she says pushed her into gender transition as a teen when she struggled with mental illnesses, including anorexia, OCD, suicidal thoughts and trauma from being raped. She was about 16 years old when she started socially transitioning after being convinced by transgender activists online that she was unhappy because her "body was fighting to be a boy." At 17, medical professionals affirmed this belief and quickly put her on puberty blockers and testosterone. She later underwent a double mastectomy and now faces chronic pain and major health problems due to these treatments. She's spent the last several years warning others of the dangers and devastating consequences that can result from hormones and sex reassignment surgeries. "They're completely irreversible. It's impossible to actually have a sex change which children are duped into believing they're having by activists, doctors who are lying. And they lie to you along the entire way with euphemisms and a refusal to use actual medical terminology, but a sex exchange never takes place. All you transition into is a less healthy version of yourself with the same problems that brought you to reject your sex," Mosley told Fox News Digital. She dismissed headlines from some media outlets Wednesday decrying the ruling as a "setback" or "new attack" on transgender rights. "It's insincere," she reacted to the media coverage. "This ruling is good for people, for children who identify as trans too." She argued the law would protect children who've been caught up in a "social contagion" from being pressured into medical treatments that could leave irreparable changes to their bodies. "And in states that have banned this type of care, they're going to be lawfully protected from doctors who would take advantage of them in their vulnerable state while they have strange beliefs and take away their health and their body parts. And it's now lawful to ban doctors from doing that," she continued. At issue in the case, United States v. Skrmetti, was whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That law prohibits states from allowing medical providers to deliver puberty blockers and hormones to facilitate a minor's transition to another sex. It also targets healthcare providers in the state who continue to provide such procedures to gender-dysphoric minors— opening these providers up to fines, lawsuits and other liability. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court to hear the case on behalf of the parents of three transgender adolescents and a Memphis-based doctor who treats transgender patients. The court upheld the Tennessee law in a 6-3 ruling. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it afford us license to decide them as we see best. Our role is not 'to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic' of the law before us… but only to ensure that it does not violate the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment. Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process."
Fox News
12-03-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
DAVID MARCUS: Calling Rep. Sarah McBride ‘mister' isn't impolite, it's just reality
Chaos erupted in Congress Tuesday, when a Republican "misgendered" a fellow House member. But maybe it was really just a case of a politician doing the unthinkable: telling the truth. Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Europe Subcommittee, referred to trans Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., as "Mister McBride," causing a heated exchange that brought the hearing to a crashing halt. Ranking Democrat Bill Keating, of Massachusetts, rode to McBride's rescue. "Mr. Chairman, you are out of order!" Keating thundered. "Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?" he harumphed, channeling the well-worn phrase from the 1950's McCarthy hearings. "This is not decent." Now, we all understand that if we meet a trans person at a party or a ballgame, we can work around the pronouns and not be a jerk about it. But a congressional hearing is not a private event, it is the official public speech of our government. It should reflect objective reality. In other words, Self did exactly the right thing to do in that official situation so as not to publicly sanction a delusion. Over the past decade, since around the time orange became the new black, our society has struggled with how to show deference to those who wish to live as the gender they aren't while pursuing public policies that protect women. But that was always the wrong question. That kind of accommodation for the idea that human beings can transubstantiate their gender was always going to bind us in the knots we face today regarding women's sports, or women-only spaces such as prisons, shelters and restrooms. It is as if many Americans, including many conservatives, have been saying, "Okay, this is pretend, but we will go along with it as long as nobody gets hurt." The problem is that the simple acceptance of the delusional position that everyone can choose their own gender hurts lots of people, not least of all children and young adults who are seduced by the almost godlike power of supposedly overcoming nature itself. "It is because of adults in the room who entertained the lie that I was born in the wrong body and needed to transition that I now suffer from irreversible damage to my body." Prisha Mosley As it turns out, the following day on Capitol Hill, Independent Women Ambassador Prisha Mosley was in attendance for Detransitioners Awareness Day. At just 16, Prisha, who seemed sure she was really a boy, had a double mastectomy, which she now regrets, but cannot undo. "It is because of adults in the room who entertained the lie that I was born in the wrong body and needed to transition that I now suffer from irreversible damage to my body," Mosley told Fox News Digital. "The truth is not transphobic. It is never loving to lie." This happened in no small part because good, decent people who wanted to be polite have allowed the unscientific and frankly absurd notion that people can switch their genders to gain legitimacy, to at least be a matter of opinion. It is not a matter of opinion, it has never been a matter of opinion, and it never will be a matter of opinion. Just days ago in Calgary, I ran into a protest against the policy of putting men in women's prisons, and we talked about how, 10 years ago, people were nervous about questioning the quasi-religious trans ideology even in private conversation. Today, reality can be proudly spoken, and should be. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein argued convincingly that language is not merely the vessel of our thoughts, it is the driver of our thoughts. Once we allow the words "man" and "woman" to mean something other than what biological reality dictates, that choice drives us to the madness and irreversible consequences we are seeing now. Perhaps all of our efforts to accommodate the lie of transgenderism over the past decade have come from a true place of caring and kindness. But it doesn't matter, it is hurting people badly, and it has to stop right now. Will the process of restoring reality on this issue lead to awkward and even volatile moments and situations like we saw in Tuesday's congressional meltdown? Absolutely. Will those who defend truth be called bigots? Without question. But when we hear stories like that of Prisha Mosley, and so many others whose lives were forever altered by the insidious lie of transgenderism, we know that whatever slings and arrows come our way, acceptance of the lie makes us complicit. Somewhere right now, a young woman or man is contemplating transition, willing to risk irreversible surgery, or even their own fertility to try to become something they never can be. For their sake, we must stop pretending and firmly place our boots back on the solid ground of biological reality.
