A detransitioner who underwent a double mastectomy as a teenager is publicly confronting the surgeon who performed the procedure, accusing him in an open letter of removing her healthy breasts without adequately addressing the underlying causes of her distress.Claire Abernathy's Thursday letter to plastic surgeon Dr.Alan Dulin details her regret over the surgery and describes the physical and emotional toll she continues to experience years later."You took advantage of a little girl’s confusion and a family’s trust to perform an unnecessary, disfiguring surgery on a child who was barely through puberty," Abernathy wrote.
"You committed an act of violence that I have to wear on my skin for the rest of my life."I WAS A CHILD AND BELIEVED GENDER TRANSITION WOULD HEAL MY PAIN.IT BECAME A NEW TRAUMAClaire Abernathy, who detransitioned after beginning gender transition at age 14, shares her experience.
(Independent Women)In a recent op-ed for Fox News, Abernathy wrote that she was put on testosterone at 14 years old and that eight months later, surgeons performed a double mastectomy on her."I am no longer that silent, vulnerable fourteen-year-old.I am a woman living in the wreckage of your carelessness, and I will spend the rest of my life ensuring that people know exactly what kind of ‘medicine’ you practiced,’" Abernathy said. Dulin is described on the website for the American Institute for Plastic Surgery as a board-certified plastic surgeon "serving patients throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth area, including Plano, Frisco, and Dallas."The site says that Dulin focuses on cosmetic plastic surgery and "approaches aesthetic surgery as a collaborative process rooted in education, transparency, and individualized planning.
His goal is to help patients make informed decisions that support both confidence and long-term satisfaction."PLASTIC SURGEON CITES 'EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL,' POOR EVIDENCE IN WARNING AGAINST YOUTH GENDER SURGERIESPlastic surgeons performing sur...