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Mother of Infant Regrets Gender Transition in Her Youth

Mother of Infant Regrets Gender Transition in Her Youth
Detransitioner Daisy Strongin holds her infant son in northeastern Illinois on Nov. 1, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Brad Jones
Brad Jones
11/2/2022|Updated: 11/10/2022
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As she coddles her infant son at her home in the Chicago suburbs, newlywed Daisy Strongin says she deeply regrets having her breasts removed in gender transition surgery when she was 20.

She was an “insecure, very self-involved, outcasted 15-year-old girl,” and the urge to transition, she said, was “enticing.”

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