At 13, I had my first testosterone injection.
As a result, I will likely have medical complications for the rest of my life.
My fertility is still unknown.
At 15, a surgeon at a Kaiser facility removed my breasts.
I was a child. I didn't fully understand what breastfeeding was. I didn't understand what losing that meant for my future.
No one at that facility stopped and asked whether I might change my mind.
A few months after surgery, I started to question everything.
A year later, I knew the truth.
I was a girl. I had always been a girl.
I was a girl who hated puberty and had no one to tell her that was normal.
At 16 — after the surgery — I became suicidal.
This was the exact nightmare the doctors told my parents they were preventing.
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