Young mother regrets double breast amputation after being unable to nurse newborn

A young mother who had her breasts amputated in the name of “gender-affirming care” has spoken out about the regret that she feels about undergoing medical transition when she was a depressed and vulnerable teenager.

In an interview with The Epoch Times, Daisy Strongin, a newlywed and mother of a two-month-old infant, describes being an "insecure, very self-involved outcasted 15-year-old girl" who found the idea of transition "enticing."

"I really wanted to feel comfortable in my own skin and I wanted to stop being depressed. I wanted to be someone else. I hated myself. I didn’t want to be the person that I was, and transitioning seemed to be this very alluring path that was beckoning to me," she said.

After flattening her breasts with a chest compression device called a breast binder for years, Strongin started on testosterone at 18 and changed her name to Oliver. However, like so many young people seduced into transitioning by the transgender movement, she started to feel worse, "less satisfied" and "less whole," leading her to detransition.

This is a common theme in the stories of the ever-growing community of detransitioners, many of whom recall thinking that transitioning was the answer to all their problems, only to discover too late that it wasn’t. Many were allowed by gender-affirming clinicians to consent to permanently altering their bodies with cross-sex hormones and surgeries before their brains had even reached full maturity.

Strongin told The Epoch Times that she believes the dramatic surge in children identifying as transgender is a social contagion and feels compelled to speak out about her regret as a warning to others regarding the danger of transgender ideology.

Another detransitioned young woman recently told her story for the same reason. In a series of videos on Twitter, a 20-year-old woman who began transitioning when she was just 16 spoke of the regret that she feels about having a bilateral mastectomy and taking testosterone for years. She too was led to believe that medical transition would solve all her problems and is telling her story in the hopes that it will prevent other young people from making the same mistake.

Strongin describes being a tomboy as a child, being bullied and lacking social skills. Then, like so many others, she began to spend a lot of time online, immersing herself in the world of gender identities.

"Then I started thinking maybe I was a trans guy," she said.

Her parents did not support her decision to take hormones or proceed with surgery, and Strongin recalls the online transgender community turning her against her loving parents, saying they were her adopted family now.

Strongin says what she really needed at that time was for someone to tell her that there was nothing wrong with her.

Now, as a 24-year-old married woman and mother of a two-month-old baby, Strongin is reminded every day of the mistake her doctors allowed her to make when she was a depressed and lonely teenager. She is constantly reminded of the fact that she will never be able to breastfeed, but told The Epoch Times that she doesn’t dwell on a past she cannot change.

"It’s done. There’s nothing I can do. The only thing I can do is just try to make peace with it," she said.