SHOCKING: Glenn Beck interviews 'detransitioner' deceived by doctors



Detransitioner Claire Abernathy was just 14 years old when doctors told her parents she’d take her own life without hormones and surgery — and promised “gender care” would save her life.

“I started identifying as trans when I was 12 years old following a sexual assault and some pretty severe bullying that I was experiencing at school,” Abernathy tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“Adopting this identity gave me, well, one, it gave me the ability to pretend to be a new person, someone that this didn’t happen to. And it also gave me an entire social network, a whole friend group of other kids who felt similarly to the way I did,” she explains.

That’s when Abernathy began going to therapists who were recommended by others with the same issues.


“They made my parents feel like abusers for being skeptical, for wanting to take pause before making irreparable changes to their child’s body,” she tells Glenn.

“Did anyone say, did any doctor say, ‘Hang on, we should look at the abuse’?” Glenn asks.

“No one. My mom asked about the abuse, the bullying, all these things that I’d gone through, disordered eating, and she was told in no uncertain terms, ‘No, that does not make a child think that they’re trans,’” Abernathy explains, noting that this occurred at “one of the most well-funded children’s hospitals in the nation.”

Abernathy was then put on testosterone at 14 years old, and then shortly after they were discussing surgery.

“I started testosterone in November of 2018, and by January, I was approved for surgery. It didn’t happen until June, but that was just because we wanted to wait until the summer between my eighth and ninth grade years,” she says.

Doctors told Abernathy and her parents that the only effective treatment for her “gender dysphoria” was “chemical and surgical intervention” and that if she did not go through with it, “the most likely outcome was suicide.”

“They didn’t tell me that it would permanently take away my ability to breastfeed. They didn’t tell me that the majority of kids who look to pursue this end up growing out of it,” she says. “There was a lot of things that I wasn’t told.”

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White House anticipates 'ultimate victory' against child sex-change regime despite Letitia James-led lawsuit



President Donald Trump declared war on gender ideology and the corresponding child sex-change regime upon retaking office. Despite the efforts of non-straight activists and overreaching federal judges, the campaign is off to a great start.

Pursuant to the president's Jan. 28 executive order titled "Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation," the Department of Justice has launched criminal investigations into several hospitals that have provided children with destructive sex-change procedures, and the administration has threatened offending medical institutions' federal funding.

In the face of this crackdown, some of the worst institutional offenders listed in the medical advocacy group Do No Harm's Stop the Harm Database have closed shop.

Stanford Medicine, for instance, paused its sex-change services for minor patients on June 2; Children's Hospital Los Angeles shuttered its infamous child sex-change center on July 22; and Kaiser Permanente recently announced it will stop providing sex-change surgeries for patients under 19 beginning Aug. 29.

Democrats continue to defend the crumbling sex-change regime despite the unscientific nature of "gender-affirming care," the falsity of the narrative constructed in its defense, and Americans' majoritive opposition to the barbaric practice.

Attorneys general from over a dozen states — California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin — plus the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging Trump's Jan. 28 executive order, accusing the administration of violating federal law and of encroaching on states' rights in violation of the 10th Amendment.

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The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, claims that Section 8 of the executive order, specifically, is "unconstitutional and unlawful."

In that section, Trump instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to:

  • Review and enforce 18 U.S.C. § 116, which prohibits female genital mutilation on minors;
  • "Prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end deception of consumers, fraud, and violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by any entity that may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation"; and
  • "Prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end child-abusive practices by so-called sanctuary States that facilitate stripping custody from parents who support the healthy development of their own children."

The Democratic coalition, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, demanded in their complaint that the federal court declare that health care provider-approved sex-change mutilations on minors do not violate the Female Genital Mutilation statute; the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; or the False Claims Act.

"The federal government is running a cruel and targeted harassment campaign against providers who offer lawful, lifesaving care to children," James said in a statement. "This administration is ruthlessly targeting young people who already face immense barriers just to be seen and heard, and are putting countless lives at risk in the process."

'I'm glad that these leftists are making it crystal clear where exactly they stand so they can be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law.'

Non-straight activists recycled the disproven claim that sex-change procedures save lives in their support of the lawsuit and in opposition to the Trump administration's protection of minors.

Carla Smith, the CEO of the New York City LGBT Community Center, for example, stated that "the Trump administration's actions endanger the lives of young people who already face disproportionate rates of depression and suicide. We applaud Attorney General James and this coalition of attorneys general for standing up to these attacks and defending the right to gender-affirming care that is clearly recognized, supported, and protected by law."

Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who has raised awareness across the country about the horrors and fallout of sex-change medical interventions, told Blaze News she had mixed feelings about the lawsuit.

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"I'd hoped AG James and the other states would let this gender ideology fade into obscurity — the best outcome for kids. Instead, by suing the Trump administration to shield puberty blockers and surgeries, they're doubling down and showing just how deeply indoctrinated they are," Cole said. "No family is truly safe in a state where children are being mutilated."

Cole — who received sterilizing puberty blockers and hormone therapy at Kaiser Permanente at the age of 13, then underwent a double mastectomy — added, "When all this is over, I'm glad that these leftists are making it crystal clear where exactly they stand so they can be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law."

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman at Do No Harm, said in a statement to Blaze News, "With this lawsuit, the Democratic attorneys general are rejecting science and common sense. Ending these dangerous treatments for children is consistent with the evidence-based standards for treating children suffering from gender dysphoria."

"Meanwhile, this lawsuit is premised upon the cult of identity politics that profits from these irreversible and experimental procedures," Goldfarb continued. "Anyone who prioritizes an ideological and harmful agenda of gender activists over protecting children and providing them high-quality care should be ashamed."

The Trump administration is ready to fight back and confident it will ultimately prove victorious over the child sex-change regime.

"On day one, President Trump took decisive action to stop the despicable mutilation and chemical castration of children — which everyday Americans resoundingly support," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Blaze News. "The president has the lawful authority to protect America's vulnerable children through executive action, and the administration looks forward to ultimate victory on this issue."

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Data: U.S. Hospitals Transitioned Nearly 6,000 Kids From 2019-2023

‘Patients are being harmed by sex transition. That cannot be disputed … The medical profession has lost its way.’

Planned Parenthood helped transmogrify an autistic teen. The mutilated victim is now seeking amends.



Planned Parenthood was founded by the infamous eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who stressed the need to "apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization, and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring."

In Sanger's own words, "morons, mental defectives, epileptics," along with criminals, the poor, the illiterate, and the unemployed, were unfit to breed and should therefore be precluded from doing so.

While the organization eventually became synonymous with the wholesale slaughter of the unborn in America, Planned Parenthood — which receives $670 million annually in government funding — appears nevertheless keen to keep sterilizing vulnerable Americans.

The Free Press indicated on the basis of insurance claim data that the organization has become one of the country's leading providers of sex-change hormones for young adults, the sustained use of which invariably impacts fertility. Such drugs are reportedly available at roughly 450 Planned Parenthood locations and were made available to at least 40,000 patients just in 2023 — roughly 40% of whom were ages 18-22.

In recent years, numerous victims of the sex-change regime have taken legal action against the medical practitioners who left them mutilated and sterile.

Luka Hein filed a lawsuit last year against the University of Nebraska Medical Center and numerous UNMC medical practitioners alleging that their "misleading descriptions and false claims" pertaining to sex-change mutilations were in violation of the state's Consumer Protection Act.

In an apparent first, a detransitioner has taken legal action against Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

According to her medical malpractice suit filed earlier this year, Cristina Hineman "is an example of the growing number of young people who have been victims of so-called 'gender-affirming care,' characterized by the immediate, no-questions-asked 'affirmation' of one's desired gender identity, irrespective of the underlying reasons for such desire and without any mental health assessment."

While struggling earlier in her youth with then-undiagnosed autism, Hineman "never felt any discomfort with her gender or expressed any desire to be a different gender." However, after enrolling in public school and becoming steeped in propaganda about "gender identities," she began to fixate on the notion that perhaps she was "non-binary" or even a man trapped in a woman's body.

"It's a medicalized version of normal teen rebellion," Hineman told the Free Press. "And I got completely sucked into that."

'Pieces of my body are missing.'

During her immersion in gender ideology, Hineman, now 20, also began to suffer from "anxiety and major depressive disorder, social exclusion disorder, self-harm, and passive suicidal ideation," said her complaint.

These mental health issues were compounded by the COVID-19 lockdowns.

The Free Press indicated that facing some pushback and skepticism from her parents, Hineman waited until her 18th birthday in 2021 to make an appointment at the Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood to start the process of medically indulging her mental sickness.

Hineman's lawsuit states that after a single 30-minute visit, she was prescribed testosterone gel — having only days earlier settled on a male identity.

The clinicians at that Planned Parenthood would continue to prescribe her testosterone without question for well over a year, and in fact would increase her dosage at Cristina’s request (rather than their own clinical judgment).

The effects of testosterone on women seeking to pass as men include: emotional instability; impaired fertility; deepened voice; liver damage; cancer; diabetes; cessation of menses; acne; facial hair growth; weight gain; fatigue; cramps; and vertigo.

Planned Parenthood allegedly did not request or require any previous medical or mental health records from Hineman before starting her on a regimen of this life-altering hormone.

Hineman subsequently had her healthy breasts cut off "all the while cheered on by her supposed mental health providers."

Following her double mastectomy, she realized she had made a terrible mistake.

"She experienced profound regret and realized that transitioning was not resolving her mental health issues but was in fact worsening them, that surgery and hormones had not made her a man," said the complaint.

"I wanted a flat chest, but you don't understand that you're not just going to have a man's chest," Hineman told the Independent Women's Forum. "It's going to be numb, so tight all the time, you’re not going to be able to feel. It's going to feel like empty space because it is."

Shortly after her elective surgery, she saw a beautiful woman on television and realized she missed her femininity.

"I had the realization this never should have happened," said Hineman. "Pieces of my body are missing."

Hineman soon stopped taking testosterone and began de-transitioning. It dawned on her as natural hormones began doing their job uninterrupted by Planned Parenthood that she wanted children — children she would now be unable to breastfeed.

At the outset of her de-transition, Hineman indicated she returned to Planned Parenthood for answers.

"I wanted to know what was going to happen to my body, and [the nurse with whom she had the initial consult] had no idea," said Hineman. "She kept saying, 'It's different for everyone. There's no way to know.'"

"That was the moment I just realized, like, 'Wow, this woman doesn't even know what she's talking about.' I don't understand how my consent could have been informed if the person prescribing it to me doesn’t even know what happens if I stop, let alone me knowing," added Hineman.

Hineman is seeking unspecified damages from Planned Parenthood and the other health care providers who had a hand in her transmogrification for negligence and a failure to obtain informed consent.

The Independent Women's Forum indicated that Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request for comment but has denied Hineman's allegations in court documents.

Campbell Miller Payne, the Texas law firm that took up her case, stated:

Like so many other vulnerable and struggling girls and young women, she sought help for her mental health struggles but was instead recklessly sent down a path of medicalization that began with cross-sex hormones and sadly culminated in a double mastectomy of her healthy breasts. We are honored to represent her in holding Planned Parenthood and others accountable for the damage they have done and continue to do.

"I don't want this to happen to other young people like me — young people with mental health problems who struggle to find their identity," said Hineman.

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Prominent U.K. Doctor’s Independent Review Finds ‘No Good Evidence’ Supports Chemically Castrating Kids

'The current evidence base suggests that children who present with gender incongruence at a young age are most likely to desist before puberty.

Is Tumblr making kids trans?



Daisy Strongin is a wife, mother, and de-transitioner who once truly believed she was a boy before finding Christ.

Strongin cites feelings of being uncomfortable with her own body and femininity, which led to her transition — as well as being chronically online at the young age of 11 years old.

It was 2009, and she had just gotten her first laptop.

Strongin spent most of her free time online, focusing on YouTube and Tumblr before stumbling on a Tumblr community with the same interests as her: "Doctor Who" and "Sherlock."

“I wasn’t at all looking for gender related stuff at first, but then the gender Tumblr stuff and the Doctor Who, Sherlock stuff — there’s some intersection,” Strongin tells Allie Beth Stuckey, adding, “I think that a lot of the girls that were in those fandoms also felt like they didn’t fit in.”

Strongin recalls stumbling on something that defined the term “gender queer” when she was in high school.

“It was basically saying gender queer is when you feel like you’re neither male nor female, or like you’re a bit of both, and I really resonated with that,” she explains, noting that the existence of the term made her feel better about herself because she wasn’t alone in her feelings.

“Then I kind of fell into a rabbit hole of all of these other different made up identities regarding gender and people,” Strongin says.

While in some cases, kids are groomed by adults into believing they’re transgender, Strongin is adamant that it wasn’t adults — but mostly other young girls online.

Then, she started watching YouTube videos of people documenting their transitions.

“As I sort of dove into the gender community,” she explains, “I started to convince myself that I’m probably trans, because there were a lot of influencers saying things like ‘If you think you’re trans you probably are.’”

Then, she started to hear people online claiming that if you believe you might be trans and don’t transition, you’re more likely to “off yourself at some point.”

Because Strongin was depressed at the time, she took the advice — or what Stuckey calls a “threat” — to heart.

“Hearing that,” Strongin says, “it went from being just like this silly little label that I felt like fit me and just kind of a personality trait really, to this is life and death.”


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