A young North Carolina woman is suing the medical team who prescribed her testosterone when she was 17 and surgically removed her breasts the following year, claiming she was quickly switched to transgender treatment for profit when she really was one needed therapy.
Prisha Mosley, 25, says she was confused and struggling with mental health issues when doctors suggested cross-sex hormones and a double breast removal after brief consultations that lasted just two minutes.
In her 53-page complaint, she claims her doctors “lied,” including saying testosterone shots would solve her problems and “grow a penis.” She has since decided to exit the transition and live as a woman, and is seeking financial compensation.
The treatments left irreversible scars, she says, including a deep voice, body and facial hair, pain in her neck and shoulders, a damaged vagina, and she most likely won’t be able to have children or breastfeed.
Prisha Mosley, now 24, is suing the doctors who gave her cross-sex hormones
Mosley deeply regrets having both breasts removed when she was 18
She’s just the latest renegade to take legal action against her doctors in lawsuits that could be pivotal in America’s heated debate over transgender rights and medical procedures, especially in children.
“They lied when they told Mosley she was actually a boy; “They lied when they told her that injecting testosterone into her body would solve her numerous, pervasive mental health and mental health problems,” the complaint reads.
“They lied by omission, withheld important information from her about the long-term health consequences and permanent damage that these treatments would cause her, and failed to inform her about alternative treatments for her mental health problems.”
Their filings were filed in Gaston County Superior Court late Monday.
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They call plastic surgeon Eric Emerson, the clinic where he works, Piedmont Plastic Surgery and Dermatology in Gaston County, and Brie Klein-Fowler, a consultant, and the clinic where she works, Family Solutions.
Also named are Shana Gordon and the center she worked at, Tree of Life Counseling, and Dr. Martha Perry and the provider she worked with, Moses Cone Medical Services.
They face various charges of fraud, civil conspiracy, medical malpractice, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and unfair and fraudulent trading practices.
The defendants did not immediately respond to ‘s request for comment.
Mosley discovered transgenderism on the internet and began the social transformation to boy at the age of 15. She believed this would help her fight anorexia, anxiety and depression, and recover from a sexual assault she suffered when she was 14.
The defendants “lied to her and tricked her into these treatments and procedures in order to make money from her and to increase her credibility in the burgeoning field of so-called gender-based care,” it said.
dr Perry diagnosed Mosley with a gender identity crisis in January 2015 after an 80-minute session and urged her for testosterone injections, sources say.
This came over objections from her parents, who said their daughter had other issues that needed treatment – but they had been barred from important medical decisions, the newspapers said.
Mosley, pictured here after testosterone started growing her facial hair
Mosley suffered from mental health issues before seeking answers in transgender ideology
In July, Gordon, a counselor, met with Mosley for just two minutes before telling her that “changing her body to look more like a boy’s body would solve her many mental health and mental health issues,” it said .
Gorden then wrote a “model letter full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations,” saying Mosley was ready to begin sex hormone treatment, which court records say began when he was 17.
In the treatment plan that Dr. Perry elaborated shortly thereafter, it was said that Mosley was “in the midst of male puberty and as part of that process she would grow a penis.”
“She did have an enlarged clitoris, but that’s not the penis she thought would grow when Dr. Perry told her she was going to grow one,” the newspapers said.
Mosley, now a student in Big Rapids, Michigan, says she finally made the decision to make the transition and found therapy could solve her problems.
She is trying to raise $15,000 to fund the laser hair removal and breast reconstruction surgery that she believes will help her live as a woman again.
She is demanding damages in an unspecified amount in the court proceedings.
“I have decided to file a lawsuit because more needs to be done,” Mosley said in a statement to .
“Just talking is not enough. People who cause harm must be held accountable. I want justice and I want to prevent this avoidable tragedy from happening to anyone else.”
Renegade Mosley is seeking damages from her plastic surgeon Eric Emerson (left) and Dr. Martha Fairbanks Perry
The lawsuit also targets Piedmont plastic surgery and dermatology (left) and the Tree of Life consultancy
Speaking to the Independent Women’s Forum, Mosley said she “mutilated” her body to stop being suicidal.
“It didn’t work, and now on top of the traumatic memories I have horrific scars and traumatic memories,” she added.
She joins a growing list of young people who are undergoing irreversible transmedical procedures but regret it and are suing the doctors and therapists who allegedly rushed them into medication and surgery.
They include such prominent detransitioners as Chloe Cole and Layla Jane in California and Camille Kiefel in Oregon.
So-called gender-affirming care includes everything from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones and, on rare occasions in trans children under 18, surgery. Several medical associations say such healthcare saves lives in a suicidal group.
But opponents of trans ideology say gender is determined at birth and cannot be changed, medical advisory groups have been hijacked by ideologues, and politicians must step in to prevent parents, doctors or therapists from causing lasting harm to children.
Many are concerned about the sharp rise in the number of teenage girls with autism and other mental health problems seeking sex reassignment surgery in recent years, as well as new studies linking puberty blockers to weaker bones and osteoporosis.
The question of whether to allow drugs and surgery for transgender children has become a frontline issue in America’s culture wars as Republicans this year push to ban gender-based grooming in about 20 states, including North Carolina.
A recent YouGov poll of 1,000 adults in red and blue states found that Americans were largely opposed to gender-affirming procedures for children.
About 61 percent opposed giving puberty blockers to 12-year-olds, while 21 percent said it was acceptable. They also found cross-sex hormones and breast surgery similarly unacceptable.