A troubled teenage girl who was drugged to become a man after an hour-long consultation at a ‘gender clinic’ now struggles to reclaim her adult life as a woman.
Tanya, not her real name, changed gender at the age of 18 while dealing with bipolar, autism, anxiety and depression.
Now 21, she battles suicidal thoughts daily as she works to reverse the transition process.
The 17-year-old girl was allegedly given sex reassignment drugs after an hour-long consultation
A text message from Tanya to her mother claiming she was “groomed” by the transgender community
Tanya’s devastated mother, Judith Hunter, blames sections of the transgender community for adapting her daughter’s fragile mind to her plans.
Ms Hunter told Daily Mail Australia her daughter had been “seduced, groomed and abducted” by the transgender community.
“There will be a tsunami of children like our daughter,” she warned.
“It’s like being brainwashed in a cult, and if you don’t go along with it, you’ll be punished.”
When I went to the hospital the next day and asked to see my daughter, I was told that I have a son and that there was a male name written above her bed
Tanya took the hormone testosterone for 18 months and was later crowdfunded by the trans community to raise money for breast removal.
Three years after her journey into manhood began, Tanya was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the verge of suicide.
Ms Hunter said her daughter begged her to save her from what she had become.
By then, the testosterone pumping through her veins was having an irreversible effect on Tanya’s body.
Her voice had deepened, her hairline was receding, and she had a noticeable redistribution of body fat.
Tanya’s female body had become male, including a massive increase in body and facial hair.
She now suffered from persistent vaginal atrophy and dryness, which caused her significant pain and required constant medication.
Ms Hunter claimed her daughter’s story was not unique, and countless other parents shared their horror stories with her.
“The parents who say ‘No, that’s not right’ are[attacked]by the children and the online sites are urging them to turn their backs on their families. “Get rid of your family. We are your family now,” she said.
When Ms Hunter discovered the countless transgender videos and websites Tanya had been watching online, she was appalled.
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Tanya’s phone was littered with text messages from a transgender militant activist.
“Snip, snip the motherfuckers. Get rid of her,” one read—referring to Tanya cutting her parents off.
When Judith Hunter’s husband texted back asking him to stop contacting his daughter, the activist laughed.
Determined to see the troubled teenage transition, the activist donated money to Tanya’s GoFundMe page for her “top surgery.”
“You are bold as brass. They’re acting like thugs,” Ms Hunter said.
The activist admitted to Daily Mail Australia that he sent a meme.
“It was like an online manual of what to do, what to say, how to treat your parents and tell them you’re suicidal so that you end up in the hospital, where you’re endorsed by the hospital staff who oppose you Turn to parents and take your side,’ she said.
The mother, from Newcastle, north of Sydney in New South Wales, said while her daughter struggled through high school for three years after being diagnosed with bipolar, autism, anxiety and depression, she had no history of gender dysphoria.
Tanya’s trans nightmare began in 11th grade when her mother was forced to take her to a psychiatrist after threatening suicide.
The doctor immediately told the concerned mother to take Tanya straight to the hospital, where she was admitted to the psychiatric ward.
“When I went to the hospital the next day and asked to see my daughter, I was told I have a son and there was a male name written above her bed,” Ms Hunter said.
“I said ‘that’s ridiculous’ and was then branded a hateful parent, bigoted and transphobic. I was told I had a living son and a dead daughter.’
The hospital referred Tanya to John Hunter Hospital and after only two short appointments, allegedly without her parents’ consent, Tanya was placed on testosterone.
Intoxicated on the drugs, Ms Hunter claimed Tanya had become so abusive that her 14-year-old brother curled up on the floor in the fetal position and begged her to stop.
“It was like living in a war zone,” she said. “It decimated our family.”
For the next three years, Tanya lived in squalid student housing or with a group of transgender people.
In December last year, she contacted her mother and asked to come home.
“She was deeply suicidal. It was the realization that despite being off testosterone for 18 months, things would not go back to the way they were,” Ms Hunter said.
Even once back in the safety of her own home, Ms Hunter claimed the trans community refused to let her go and continued to harass her family.
“People would have no idea what we’ve been through since she got home,” she said.
“Tanya was suicidal because she didn’t want to live with what she had done to her body. She deeply regrets it.’
Ms Hunter remains furious that the Newcastle clinic, which treated her daughter, continued to ignore her concerns.
“We went and knocked on her door. Finally, two doctors came out. They said they weren’t an emergency service. It was like talking to a brick wall,” she said.
“The medical professionals who advise teenage girls to have a double mastectomy before they reach adulthood are angry.
“Telling our girls that being uncomfortable through puberty is a ‘medical condition’ has lost their moral and ethical compass. A generation of young people is being harmed and failing.”
Trans groups have been accused of bullying the parents of troubled children
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2016-2018: Tanya suffers from severe mental health problems
October 2018: Announces she was a boy
Admitted to hospital and immediately confirmed by staff and referred to an endocrinologist
November 2018: Tanya turns 18 and books her first endocrinologist appointment for December
March 2019: Tanya starts taking testosterone and moves out of home
August 2020: Stops Testosterone
Early 2021: Starts Gofundme to pay for operations.
November 2021: Tanya returns home for three weeks before departing again in December
January 2022: Calls mom to say she was in a psychiatric ward and needed to come home
Ms Hunter compared parts of the transgender community to an “online cult” that has infiltrated the medical profession.
“It’s a terrible medical scandal.”
The President of the National Association of Practitioning Psychiatrists, Professor Philip Morris AM, told Daily Mail Australia that the past five years have seen an explosion in presentations of rapid onset gender dysphoria – particularly among young women presenting as trans men.
“The problem is that many of the early teens don’t have a long history of gender issues that goes back to their early childhood. Many of these young adolescents come forward with no gender history,” Professor Morris said.
Professor Dianna Kenny – a child psychologist – said it was “negligent and irresponsible medical practice” to approve cross-sex hormones for young people after a brief assessment.
“You don’t subject young people to life-changing and irreversible treatment without exploring all possible ideologies and options before resorting to radical, unapproved treatment of young people,” she said.
Professor Kenny said there needed to be radical oversight of gender clinics and more gates and shelters for young people.
“It’s a medical scandal, supported and abetted by family court, that woke up politicians too dispirited to speak out,” she said.
“We are now seeing the long-term results in tens of thousands of people who have had double mastectomies and crossed sex hormones that have transformed their bodies for the rest of their lives.”
Trans group ACON was contacted by Daily Mail Australia for comment.