My Letter to the Surgeon Who Performed My Double Mastectomy: Detransitioner Perspective

This is a copy of the letter I mailed to the surgeon who performed my double mastectomy or “top surgery” when I was 20 years old. This letter, addressed as a “Notification of Detransition” was mailed to the cosmetic surgeon.  I wrote this letter to inform the doctor and his staff that a former patient of his 100% regrets the operation performed on her, and has detransitioned and is now living as a biological female with no functioning breasts.

I kept the letter short and emotionally detached and, despite my traumatic feelings around this loss of self and body parts in my private life, knew it was crucial to maintain a rational composure in stating the facts of my situation. I described how my gender dysphoria was not cured by surgery or medical transition, but instead was fully resolved within 2 years through cognitive behavioral therapy, because the “gender dysphoria” was in reality, complex post-traumatic stress disorder. I described how I realized, only 2 years later at age 22, that the surgery had been a mistake, and that I didn’t receive proper mental health treatment when I was obtaining the surgery, the supposedly necessary gatekeeping he required to perform the operation.

This was important to include because, although I doubt as a cosmetic surgeon who has made his career entirely dedicated to performing double mastectomies on young women and girls as young as 16, that he cares about the mental wellbeing of his cliental, he advertises his practice as being a legitimate medical service by insisting that he follows the “WPATH Standards of Care”, the leading organization of trans medicine which requires at least 2 letters of referral from mental health providers for a patient to receive medical transition. The Standards of Care advocate for thorough screening for mental wellness, and selecting only appropriate patients who would truly benefit from transition.

It was crucial to inform the doctor that, in my case, the Standards were not met, as the mental health care I was receiving, and the subsequent referral letters, were negligent in providing assessment of my mental health situation, and therefore, his practice was not actually following the WPATH Standards of Care. Furthermore, what I did not include in the letter due to a desire to preserve my anonymity, was the fact that I openly discussed being suicidal with the doctor during our consultation, and feeling suicidal on the day of the actual surgery. Regardless of the recommendation letters, I presented to my doctor as not of sound mind to make a major elective surgical decision, but he performed the operation anyway.

After relaying my personal beliefs that this treatment was unethical in my case, I made it known to my doctor that I am far from the only former FTM patient who regrets medical transition, and cited Dr. Lisa Littman’s study of detransitioners showing how high the comorbidity rates are of various mental disorders in the FTM population, and how this issue is not just a personal error, but a growingly widespread phenomenon. I closed the letter with a call to action for the doctor to reconsider what his practice views as ‘medical treatment’ to treat mental disorders. I plainly asked him to confront the reality that he removes young women’s and even minor children’s breasts to treat problems inside their minds, and if he truly believes that is following the medical oath to “Do No Harm.”

My story is similar to many detransitioners who share why they felt they needed to transition. I grew up on the autism spectrum, experienced verbal, emotional, and psychosocial abuse from family resulting in PTSD, depression, and anxiety, had severe depression from attachment issues and hormonal dysregulation from PCOS, felt chronically othered and different as a girl, young woman, and person, suffered with relationship difficulties with romance, sex, and friendship due to undiagnosed trauma, and latched onto “gender dysphoria” as the cause of most of my difficulties.

I sought treatment for my gender related distress and learned online that the only solution was to accept being transgender and transition to live as a gay man. I followed the usual coaching of the process to “healing”, first, to socially transition and come out as nonbinary and transgender, second, to receive hormones from an informed-consent clinic, with no mental health evaluation or gatekeeping, and finally to have top surgery, the greatest rite of passage for the FTM cult. Throughout this process I saw multiple doctors, a psychiatrist, and therapists, none of whom questioned my identity, traumas, or provided help for my complex mental health issues. I had just turned 20 and was fresh out of an inpatient psychiatric ward for suicidal ideation when I desperately made my appointment to try and heal my depression through altering my body with surgery.

There is no need for further explanation. I was 20, developmentally immature, mentally ill, suicidal, had PTSD, and not in a rational state of consciousness, yet the mental health system failed to provide its due service, and my doctor and other cosmetic surgeons hungrily leapt at the opportunity for fresh meat to profit from operating on, in this unchecked, wild west market for “gender medicine.”

I share this letter with you to showcase real-life consequences of trans medical propaganda, and the repercussions our young people and children are facing. The last I checked; my doctor operates on girls as young as 16. I’ve done my soul-searching, grieving, extensive therapy, and self-punishment for the mistakes of my childhood self, but am healed enough to have progressed into self-forgiveness, acceptance, and upholding unrelenting boundaries around my peace, sanity, and healing process. I did not provide a return address on the letter I mailed, as I did not want to endure excuses or shaming correspondences.

The letter remains a rallying cry from the young women of the detrans movement to advocate for better medical treatment, no placation or bullshit apologies desired. I don’t claim to speak on behalf of anyone else, but unfortunately appreciate that my story is identical to countless other girls, and I hope that sharing this will somehow help them heal, or better yet, prevent the need for their healing in the first place.

Dear Dr. XXXX and Top Surgery Clinicians,

I am a former patient who you performed a double incision mastectomy on in 2017 while I was 20 years old. I am writing to inform you and your office that I have detransitioned and no longer identify as male/transgender and have returned to living fully as my biological female sex. I want to inform you that I fully regret having the surgery to have my breasts removed. My symptoms of gender dysphoria were the result of CPTSD from childhood abuse and my transgender identity was a maladaptive coping mechanism to deal with the reality of the trauma.

I have fully resolved my feelings of gender dysphoria through cognitive behavioral therapy and view the surgery and transition as a placebo that gave me only false hope of feeling better about myself. I 100% regret the surgical outcome of my body and miss having my healthy breasts. I was 20 when I had my identity crisis and detransitioned 2 years later at 22. I believe I did not receive proper mental health screening by my psychiatrists who wrote my surgery recommendation letters because they said I was mentally stable while I was actually suicidal and exhibiting symptoms of undiagnosed PTSD.

I have found healing and community within the online population of other detransitioned women with similar experiences of trauma, and I want to inform you that I do not believe removing the breasts of young women, especially minors, is medically ethical given the severe rates of comorbid mental health issues in the FTM population. I do not believe I was stable or mature at 20 to transition and I don’t think a minor child under 18 in any circumstance is stable or mature to consent to having her breasts removed.

There is a rising number of detransition cases just like mine as evidenced by the rapid increase of detrans stories on Youtube, and the Subreddit r/detrans. There has also been a recent study by Lisa Littman at littmanresearch.com on detransition which shows that 60% of the detrans study participants transitioned due to underlying mental health and trauma reasons, and 25% due to being lesbian or gay.

I ask you to consider my story and the stories of others as your ethical duty as a clinician to first do no harm, and rethink if removing healthy breasts of women and children so they can pretend to be men is physically or mentally doing no harm.

Your patient, Laura

COVID Jabs: Speaking for The Dead

I’ve been following the COVID story closely; as someone who had his small business destroyed by COVID-related lock downs, I’ve had a lot of time on my hands during the last two years. One of the things that struck me in December of 2020 with the rollout of the mass vaccination campaign was that we had no long or mid-term safety studies. The short term studies were performed by the manufacturers themselves and often in places like Brazil, making the claims that there were few serious side effects and 90-98% efficacy suspicious. Everyone who got one of these experimental injections (I hesitate to call them vaccines as they don’t seem to prevent transmission or infection) had no idea what the long-term outcomes could be, and we’re already seeing incidences of cancer, miscarriages, heart and neurological problems to name a few examples in the jabbinated population.

Heck, they had to change the definition of vaccine to accommodate the stupendous failure of these injections to prevent COVID infections. We saw unprecedented cooperation between federal and corporate authorities to funnel tens of billions of tax dollars to these companies and censor speech online and in the media that questioned or contradicted their narratives. Lest we forget, fascism is the combination of political and corporate power and it generally doesn’t end well.

As I write this in mid-February of 2022, we’ve had multiple data points that indicate this mass vaccination campaign and coercive government mandates are responsible the deaths of healthy men, women and kids. The magnitude of the problem is still unknown, but given the anecdotal evidence and VAERs reports, we’re looking at something like millions of adverse reactions and tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths. When we consider that VAERs reports are under-counted, less than 1% of adverse events are reported according to the results of this Harvard study, it suggests there are possibly 230K deaths and upwards of millions adverse events.

As a scientist, I like to cross-reference data before internalizing it. Is there any other large database that suggests massive increases in adverse health events in the jabbinated? It just so happens there is. The Department of Defense keeps an incredibly detailed accounting of US soldiers’ health. Whistleblowers at the DoD are speaking out about data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED). When 2021 was compared to the averages of the preceding five years there were MASSIVE increases in all kinds of problems:

Now the DoD has conveniently blamed an unspecified “glitch” in their internal system. Frankly, I think that’s a crock of bullshit. Y’all can make up your own minds. Additionally, the three DoD Whistleblowers noticed that the data for myocarditis was totally missing from the database. This suggests an active attempt at concealing data about a life-threatening complication of these experimental injections.

“But Brently, that’s only 2 different sources! Surely, we’d want a third before drawing conclusions!”

Of course, dear reader, of course. For a third data point, we can consider this: “Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64” This story is getting little to no attention and it is a proverbial BOMBSHELL:

“We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business. Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”

It’s important to note that these numbers are from all causes and while there are some Covid deaths, the majority of them were not.

That’s without getting into anecdotes. People like to dismiss anecdotal evidence or as I like to think of it: witness testimony. There are hundreds of these stories, but I’ll try to share as few as possible just to give you some examples:

Jacob Clynick, aged 13, dies 3 days after his 2nd Pfizer injection. After a forensic autopsy and consultation with local law enforcement and the CDC, they declared they “could not find a causal relationship.” Pardon my skepticism. Did I mention they have no explanation for how he died? Cause of death still remains a mystery. Well, officially.

Another boy, aged 15, died within 48 hours of his experimental injection and yet again, ABC News tells us that “They've ruled the cause of death was determined to be stress cardiomyopathy with perivascular coronary artery inflammation,” which we know is one of the deadly reactions and yet: “We can verify that Sonoma County did not rule the COVID-19 vaccine as the cause of death of a 15-year-old boy.” Explain that one.

Luke Garret, aged 20, died 12 hours after his injection. He had muscular dystrophy and was tired of hiding in his home. He wanted to get the injection so he could go back to normal life. Despite the close timing, and the fact the boy had a seizure which killed him within 12 hours of getting jabbed, Scottish authorities still maintain “there is no 'causal link' between the Pfizer vaccine and any deaths.”

Are we seeing a pattern?

Lisa Shaw, 44, a BBC presenter was officially killed by her Astra-Zeneca injection. After severe headaches just days after her vaccine she was admitted to the hospital and was diagnosed with a blot clot. Wife, mother, with a career, dead at 44 due to the shot. It’s like Astra-Zeneca doesn’t have the same protections as Pfizer and Moderna. Curious, that.

In Portugal, a 6 year old boy was admitted to the hospital and died due to “cardio-respiratory” complications. He had his first dose of Pfizer and died within a week.

23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Curiously, when they began to ban coofid jabs, Pfizer was the one they seemed to think was the safest. I don’t get it either folks, unless Pfizer’s profit margins are protected by some mysterious benefactors who hold a lot of stock in the company… a possibility we should be open to considering.

Dr. Gregory Michael, 56, passed away two weeks after his Pfizer jab. Despite the fact he had a severe reaction 3 days after, his stroke was ruled unrelated to his experimental participation.

I have dozens of links to articles like these. Strokes, neurological problems, heart attacks all occurring within hours, days or weeks of the experimental injection and yet the causal relationship is constantly denied. Odds are these people, especially the children, would be with us if they had not participated in the ‘greatest’ medical experiment of all time. The fact this information is denied or outright censored while those of us who speak for the dead are labeled, kicked off social media, and mocked is beyond disturbing. Before covid19, medical malpractice was the third leading cause of death in the US, but during the ‘pandemic’ guess what took it’s place?

I’ll leave you here dear reader, with these thoughts. These are only those killed soon after their injections. These are the obvious ones. How many more people will die months or years later due to things like cancer? Only time (and honest investigators) will tell.

Australian Indigenous Peoples Claim FORCED Vaccination & Relocation into Camps by Military!

“We need international attention focused on what’s happening here in our communities. We have the Northern Territory gov’t force-vaccinating our people using military… to pressure our people into taking this bioweapon. They are not informing the people, they are lining them up, they are pressuring them they are telling them they can’t eat in the shops. They can’t leave the community. They can’t go shopping elsewhere. Those who are fleeing vaccination or fleeing to get food are being fined $5000 for leaving the community. This is martial law, this is a war crime, this is a crime against humanity and everything that is being implemented on humanity is being tried on the tribal people of this continent. We are the guinea pigs. We are the dry-run for everything. What they are doing in our community right now, do not think that because you live in major cities you are void of it. This is a dry-run for the rest of the country and the rest of the world… What they are doing now is they are forcing this genocidal weapon onto us, through coercion, through force, through the relief of getting a fee or food or money - they are pressuring us in every way. Now they are getting the military to lockdown entire communities. They are not letting people in or out. Our people are scared, our people are frightened… This is torture… do not be mistaken. This is torture. We’re calling for the international community to bring this to the attention of the world.”

The above is a cry for help from these individuals who claim to represent Australia’s indigenous community in the Northern Territories. This video is the longest form that we’ve seen but it is not the only one. The aim of this blog post is to inform our viewers of what we’re seeing and hearing, giving you the full picture - including the claims it is a hoax or distortion - and allowing you to judge for yourselves.

This video shows a woman claiming “a crisis situation, an act of war against our people.” She identifies herself and says where she’s from: https://twitter.com/i/status/1463300039271272454

Here we have a representative from the gov’t admitting that due to 9 cases in a community of hundreds, they’re implementing a “hard lockdown.” That means they can only leave for medical treatment, an emergency or if required by law.

Another woman corroborating the details is June Mills. She seems to be in the process of being evicted from her home. Curious that they’re evicting her as she’s getting international attention for speaking out about the mass vaccination and relocation campaign happening in the Northern Territories.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1463287302940237834

https://www.facebook.com/june.mills.142

Another woman asking for help, boots on the ground, to document and record what’s happening. She claims people are being removed from their homes against their will and in violation of the law.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1463513521631547394

This image was posted by an Australian politician who later deleted the post after commenters pointed out it was an old picture from June and not an accurate representation of what’s currently happening.

We also have a news article claiming it’s a hoax and quoting some alleged aboriginal elders, but no video of these folks to back up their assertions.

Lastly a lengthy twitter thread from someone who identifies himself as Luke Ellis. He claims to be an aboriginal tribe member who contracted covid while helping spread the vaccinations to communities in need. He goes on a lengthy rant claiming a hoax, that the camps are great, that vaccinations are safe and effective, and while he gives his name, he does not post a picture of himself or any video.

We have reached out to June Mills and are attempting to find someone willing to come on the podcast to discuss the situation. We remain skeptical of accusations and open minded to all possibilities, but given the propaganda and extremely concerning behavior of governments and media throughout the pandemic, one can’t help the tendency to believe these are genuine people experiencing a very real assault on their civil liberties and human rights. It wouldn’t be the first time. If you have any information, please reach out to us on twitter or feel free to email dangerousrhetoricpod@gmail.com.

Independence Day Reflection

I've never been nationalistic, have always been heavily critical of my country and some of its culture (yet constructively, and always out of concern) but most particularly, of my government. Ultimately, I am glad I live here and not somewhere else, and despite the multitude of idiots out there (left or right) I think the majority of Americans are generally decent people who just want to live their lives in peace.

Don't let these crooks in power divide us. Don't let them convince you that folks like me are "extremists" for wanting to CONSERVE certain values and principles we think are fundamental to this place, and for wanting to hold the government accountable when they trample on those values and principles. It doesn't mean there's no room for growth; it doesn't mean we still don't have strides to make in equality of opportunity; it means being able to work toward those goals while still acknowledging the foundational ideas that must be preserved for us to keep this going, and paying homage to those ideas by seeing how far we have been able to come, historically, because of them.

Enjoy your holiday.

-Dan

(Photograph taken by Katelyn Kopenhaver, July 4th, 2020)

Memorial Day Reflection

Everyone knows I don't really do nationalism and all that, but in the grand scheme of things, I can recognize that I'm only here living a relatively peaceful existence as a result of a lot of death and fighting that preceded me, like everyone else. I never glorify war, but there's something to be said about the bravery of being willing to fight in one, for whatever reason, and knowing any moment could be your last; the subjects of war and violence (and what drives people to it) have always eternally fascinated and puzzled me.

Thankfully, I've never been put in such a situation of having to fight in a war, so I do remember those who were for that reason alone, and who had to make unbelievably difficult decisions in the midst of the larger moving forces of history beyond their control. In this regard, through contextualizing myself in the grand scheme of my country's story, I show my respect for the dead.

-Dan

First Blog Post: Welcome!

The Dangerous Rhetoric blog will feature articles by our hosts and other guest writers. Stay tuned for more! For now, we would just like to welcome all visitors to our website and to thank anyone who took time out of their busy lives to at least check us out.

Cheers!

-Dan and Brent