CV NEWS FEED // A judge this month granted Prisha Mosley’s lawsuit to proceed against the doctors who encouraged her to undergo life-altering “transgender” surgeries at 16. The lawsuit is the first of its kind that a judge has granted to proceed, according to Mosley’s lawyer.
“This is the first substantive ruling we are aware of in which a Court has held that a detransitioner’s case against her health care professionals is legally viable,” Mosley’s lawyer Josh Payne stated, according to a May 16 FOX News article.
“We are honored to represent Prisha as she pursues justice for herself and her family and tries to prevent what happened to her from happening to others,” he added.
Mosley, now in her 20s, filed a lawsuit in July 2023 in North Carolina’s Gaston County Superior Court, according to Catholic News Agency.
In a July 2023 op-ed for FOX News, Mosley shared her story, writing, “I trusted these health care providers to take care of me.”
She wrote that as a teenager, she sought mental health help after suffering a sexual assault at age 14, and over the next two years suffering from major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and an eating disorder.
“Because of that relationship of trust, and my vulnerable condition, I believed what [the health care providers] said and I thought they were treating me properly,” she wrote.
“Years later, I realized that I had been lied to and misled in the worst possible way,” she continued, later writing:
Instead of addressing my severe mental health issues and helping me feel comfortable in my feminine body, my doctors and counselors pushed me into the belief that damaging my body was the answer.
It was not the answer. Their “care” – in the form of testosterone injections and breast surgery – left me broken, with extreme physical injuries and without my body parts. It did not cure my mental health problems and instead made them worse.
Earlier in May 2024, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin granted Mosley’s lawsuit to proceed against several doctors and health facilities, on charges of alleging fraud and civil conspiracy, according to the May 16 FOX News.
Originally, Mosley sued the defendants “on seven counts of fraud, facilitating fraud, breach of fiduciary duty rising to the level of constructive fraud, civil conspiracy, medical malpractice, negligent infliction of emotional distress and unfair and deceptive trade practices,” according to FOX.
Ervin granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss several of these charges, but the charges of fraud and civil conspiracy remain.
“I am grateful that the Court has recognized my case has merit,” Mosley stated, according to the May 16 FOX News article. “The legal process can be daunting. I am encouraged by the Court’s ruling in my favor, and I am determined to see the case through to a final victory.”
She added that young people who have mental health struggles, as she did, “deserve better” and “need compassionate support. They do not deserve to be lied to and misled into life-altering medical procedures that only cause harm.”