Twenty-year-old Isabella Ayala, who was irresponsibly advised to change her gender at the tender age of 14, is now courageously taking legal action against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Ayala alleges that the AAP, in a egregious case of professional negligence and a blatant disregard for informed consent, propelled her down the path of a ‘gender-affirmative’ model of care, which she now claims to be a sham. She argues that the AAP’s assurances of a successful transition from female to male were not only deceitful but scientifically impossible. She now lives with the permanent and emotionally scarring effects of the testosterone on her body, a constant reminder of a medical establishment that failed her.
Should minor gender transition be legal?