Detransitioners share sex-change horror stories about doctors pressuring them as impressionable teens: Like a car salesman

Three disturbing stories of children that were allegedly preyed upon by greedy hospitals and doctors — and encouraged as minors to undergo gender-care treatment — were outlined in the Department of Health and Human Services’ bombshell “Wolves in White Coats” report Thursday.Here are their stories.Clementine was just 12 years old and anxious about her changing adolescent body, while simultaneously grappling with unprocessed trauma from sexual abuse years earlier.Desperate for an escape, she discovered the idea of transitioning gender in an internet search, and thought it would be the perfect refuge for her puberty fears.She confided in a school guidance counselor, who immediately reached out to her parents.“Within months,” HHS details, the counselor coordinated meetings to her social transition, which included explaining the concept of transgenderism to her classmates.At her first medical appointment at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which was about an hour long, doctors told Clementine’s parents their daughter was “100% trans” and at a high risk of suicide without medical intervention.Her terrified parents agreed, and she was placed on puberty blockers a month later, then testosterone at 13 before undergoing a double mastectomy at 14.Clementine’s mental health cratered, culminating in a psychotic episode, and she began suffering from insomnia, disordered eating and fits of anger.Not one of her doctors attributed her symptoms to her undergoing hormone therapy, instead loading her up with psychiatric drugs like Zoloft, Seroquel, Guanfacine and Hydroxyzine, according to the HHS.Only once she started undergoing serious therapy for her condition did she realize her gender confusion likely stemmed from her sexual abuse, and she stopped taking testosterone at 18.

But her body was left a wreck, full of pain and irregular menstruation cycles, and requiring estrogen to reverse the damage.And once she started pursuing breast reconstructive surgery sh...