Daughter Beguiled Into Believing She Was Male, Took Hormones: Mother Discusses Her Child’s Detransition

Could identifying as transgender be a result of social contagion?

Young people, especially female adolescents, are being pressed into gender reassignment surgeries, leaving them with irreversible damage. Sasint/Pixabay

A week before Emma* turned 18, she told her family that she was a boy.

“We were really sceptical,” said her mother, Judith Hunter, “She had no history of gender dysphoria, and she was at the end of three years of very poor mental health.”