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CV NEWS FEED // Detransitioner Prisha Mosley recently spoke about the challenges of taking care of her six-month-old baby while dealing with the permanent health effects of the “gender-affirming care” that she underwent as a vulnerable teenager.
The Daily Mail reports that Mosley is one of the first detransitioners to experience pregnancy and motherhood. In an exclusive interview with the outlet, she shared that she loves the moments when her son wakes up in the morning and she gets to snuggle him in bed.
However, though her son is healthy, Mosley said that the pregnancy, birth, and post-partum period were painful and difficult.
“It was a high-risk pregnancy and the whole time I was worrying if the baby would be healthy because of all the cross-sex hormones I’d been taking,” Mosley said.
Other pregnancy symptoms, like nausea and incontinence, proved much more severe for Mosley than for most women. Carrying her son was painful because her hips did not fully develop thanks to the testosterone she started as a 17-year-old.
“My doctor said women get morning sickness because of the sudden influx of progesterone, and it was severe for me because I was already so low on all the female hormones I needed,” she said.
“Because I didn’t finish puberty before I started taking testosterone, my hip bones were too small so there wasn’t a lot of room for the baby to grow. It was painful every time he moved,” she related. “I was also having problems with incontinence before becoming pregnant and had to go off the medication I was taking, so that got worse. And I couldn’t have a natural delivery – it wasn’t a choice I could make.”
As a teenager, Mosely was suffering from mental health struggles after experiencing sexual abuse, a resulting pregnancy, and a miscarriage, according to the Daily Mail. She also struggled with anorexia and gender dysphoria. When she sought professional medical help, doctors’ solution was irreversible surgical and chemical interventions.
Due to undergoing a double mastectomy at 18, Mosley was unable to breastfeed. Women donated breastmilk to help her feed her son, but she was in extreme pain during the period, she related to the Daily Mail.
“I produced milk that was trapped in my chest with no way to reach my nipples because they had been severed, reshaped and reattached to my chest in the wrong spot so it could look like a boy’s chest. It was the worst pain I’ve ever had in my life,” she said.
She also said that her baby “looks for milk and it’s not there.” She said her chest is numb, explaining: “I can feel him against my neck, shoulders and stomach, but it’s like there’s a big hole where my chest should be, because there’s no sensation there.”
As CatholicVote previously reported, Mosley is suing the doctors who encouraged her to undergo testosterone injections and a mastectomy. In May, a judge granted her lawsuit to proceed with the charges of fraud and civil conspiracy against the doctors.
