An Ontario woman who detransitioned from her transgender life has brought a lawsuit against the doctors that urged her to transition amid a mental breakdown.
The Post Millennial reports that she underwent a bilateral mastectomy and a hysterectomy during her mental crisis, and she has also been prescribed doses of testosterone during this same time. She believes her doctors ought to be held responsible for this. She said during the middle of her mental health crisis that she believed she was a man, but she no longer believes that to be the case.
Michelle Zacchigna, 34, of Orillia, has filed a lawsuit against at least eight of her doctors and mental healthcare providers while changing from being a woman to a man. She insists that without their urging, she would not have chosen to become a man. She feels it was highly irresponsible that they allowed her to do such a thing while in a mental health crisis. This is the basis of her lawsuit.
Zucchigna claims that she now deeply regrets having gotten the procedures and feels like her doctors should have intervened at that time. She wrote the following about her regrets about receiving the procedures:
I will live the rest of my life without breasts, with a deepened voice and male-pattern balding, and without the ability to get pregnant. Removing my completely healthy uterus is my greatest regret.
Her writing continued: Later, I would learn that what I experienced in childhood was developmental trauma.
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It affected the trajectory of my life. My personality completely changed. I went from a loud, fierce, opinionated child to a passive, shy teenager with low self-esteem.
She says that at age 21, after years of wrestling with issues such as depression, anxiety, self-harm, and a suicide attempt, she found the idea of gender identity issues on Tumblr. Based on what she read on that social blogging website, she convinced herself she might have some issues related to her gender identity. It was a decision that she said she would come to regret. This is the kind of thing that people fear might happen to millions of people learning about gender identity issues for themselves right now.
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