(LifeSiteNews) – A 26-year-old woman is hopeful of reviving her lawsuit against the doctors who “transitioned” her can be revived thanks to North Carolina’s recent move to lengthen the statute of limitations on gender-related medical malpractice cases.
As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, Prisha Mosley was talked into “transitioning” at just 16 years old to deal with serious mental issues she was suffering at the time. “By age 16, I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and an eating disorder,” she says. “I engaged in self-harm by cutting myself, which became so serious that I was taken to the emergency room.”
On doctors’ advice, she began taking significant testosterone injections and had her breasts surgically removed. But transforming herself to resemble a boy only compounded her suffering.
“My voice was permanently changed; I was no longer able to lift my voice and sing, which I used to love doing,” Mosley says. “I experienced severe pain in my shoulders, neck, and genital area. I do not know if I will be able to conceive and give birth to a child. As a result of breast surgery, I have to live without my breasts, and I am unable to nurse a child, should I be able to conceive one. I have pain in my chest where my breasts used to be.”
In July 2023, Mosley filed a lawsuit against the doctors who advised her for fraud, facilitating fraud, medical malpractice, civil conspiracy, negligent infliction of emotional distress and unfair and deceptive trade practices, and breach of fiduciary duty rising to the level of constructive fraud.
Part of that lawsuit is proceeding, but the medical malpractice portion was dismissed last year for exceeding North Carolina’s three-year statute of limitations, which Mosley argued was inadequate for cases of so-called “gender reassignment,” citing her own example of spending three years on testosterone and being reassured by her doctors it was the right course.
She urged the state legislature to act, and, on July 29, HB 805 became law over Gov. Josh Stein’s overridden veto, extending the statute of limitations in gender malpractice cases to 10 years.
In light of the new law, Mosley has filed to have her malpractice suit reinstated, International Family News reports, with a decision potentially next summer. The Independent Women’s Forum adds that the outcome is “expected to set a precedent for similar laws in other states, ensuring detransitioners have the time they need to process their experiences and pursue legal recourse.”
“This case isn’t just about me—it is about accountability for every individual who was sold irreversible and life-altering lies. I am incredibly grateful that HB 805 has given me a second chance to be heard and to seek justice for the pain that I have had to endure,” Mosley said. “A longer statute of limitations is only fair and opens the pathway to justice for many victims, as recent studies and detransitioners alike say that the average time it takes to recognize the transition as harmful is 7 years.”
A large body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically-transformative, and often-irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “reassignment” procedures fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Many oft-ignored detransitioners attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion in favor of “transitioning.”
“Gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with an 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health, where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”
