Multiple men and women who have detransitioned described how easy it was for them to get transgender surgeries and hormones in a new CBS segment — and how the surgeries or treatment negatively impacted them.

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As lawmakers across the country introduce and pass bills focused on gender transitions, Lesley Stahl interviewed multiple medical experts and former or current transgender people who expressed fear that transgender surgeries and hormone treatments, often irreversible, are too easily attainable.

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The CBS host said that the program “interviewed more than 30 detransitioners, who say they also had experienced regret, including these four, who hadn’t met before now.” . . .

“We cannot turn a blind eye to the needs of those trans people who have gotten less than adequate care or even poor care,” says Dr. Erica Anderson. She says the trans community as a whole needs more and better healthcare, not bans on treatment. https://t.co/LwCEqtK4Jt pic.twitter.com/jDEKyRbVup

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 23, 2021

. . . “This growing issue is precisely the reason why states like Arkansas and Tennessee are taking steps to ensure children are not forced down this path at a young age,” he added. “And as the plight of de-transitioners becomes more visible, we hope many other states will follow.”

Grace Lidinsky-Smith

Grace Lidinsky-Smith told Stahl that she experienced gender dysphoria and was seriously depressed in her early 20’s and began researching transgender communities. Lidinsky-Smith said she saw many transgender people “being so happy and excited about doing this wonderful, transformative process” to “become their true selves.” . . .

“The trans community is facing an epidemic of violence… at least 44 transgender people [were] killed last year,” says the HRC's Alphonso David, citing the key issues facing trans people: violence, suicide, health care, and legislation limiting trans care. https://t.co/aFUqKHI7t7 pic.twitter.com/k5KeiLa7Tv

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 23, 2021

Lidinsky-Smith said that she found a gender therapist online who had a few sessions with her. The therapist affirmed Lidinsky-Smith’s desire to transition, but Lidinsky-Smith said the therapist didn’t “really go into what my gender dysphoria might’ve been stemming from.”

Beginning the process was easy, according to the segment — Lidinsky-Smith signed an informed consent form and then got a prescription for testosterone. . . .

“Just four months after she started testosterone, she says she was approved for a mastectomy, what’s called ‘top surgery,’ that she told us was traumatic,” Stahl said in a voiceover. . . .

As the field of transgender care grows and clinics pop up to meet demand, are professional guidelines being followed to assure patients are carefully assessed before receiving hormone treatment and surgery? We asked psychologist Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper: https://t.co/zpbz3XXPli pic.twitter.com/tfUfS728b8

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 23, 2021

Garrett

Another young man who detransitioned said that he felt he “didn’t get enough pushback on transitioning,” went in for two appointments and then received a letter approving him for “cross-sex hormones.”

“Two visits,” Stahl asked. “That’s it?”

“Uh-huh,” the young man, who the segment identified as Garrett from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said.

Garrett “went from taking hormones to getting his testicles removed” in just three months, the segment reported, not following what current guidelines call for “continuous use for a year.” . . .

“But, instead of feeling more himself, he says he felt worse,” Stahl explained.

“I had never really been suicidal before until I had my breast augmentation,” Garrett said. “And about a week afterwards I wanted to, like, actually kill myself. Like, I had a plan and I was gonna do it but I just kept thinking about, like, my family to stop myself. It kind of felt like how am I ever going to feel normal again, like other guys now?”

Doctors Weigh In

One doctor who has helped hundreds of young people transition, Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper, told CBS: “it greatly concerns me where the field has been going.” . . .

University of California San Francisco doctor Erica Anderson, who is also transgender, suggested that stories about those who detransition demonstrate the need for more health care for the transgender community rather than a ban on transgender surgeries and procedures. . . .

“There are many trans children who are helped by the kinds of interventions that we're talking about here that would be prohibited by these laws,” says Dr. Erica Anderson about proposed legislation banning treatments to assist youth in their transitions. https://t.co/QKMqu9KNk9 pic.twitter.com/2dp2lssTDa

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 23, 2021

Author Abigail Shrier was one of the first to sound the alarm on the ease with which some young people have transitioned. Shrier, the author of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” which examined spikes in transgenderism among teenaged girls who formerly displayed feminine traits and tendencies,” praised those who spoke out in the CBS interview. . . .

It takes enormous courage to speak out as a detransitioner – as @HormoneHangover did in this "60 Minutes" episode clip. She will no doubt face torrents of hate. But she just may save thousands of girls. https://t.co/XjA8sLO3fV

— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) May 24, 2021

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(Excerpt from The Virginia Star. Article by Mary Margaret Olohan. Photo Credit: Unsplash.)