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A Florida woman who transitioned from female to male at the age of 14, only to complete the transition three years later, tells her story in a new documentary, hoping it will make others think twice.
Isabelle Ayala, now 20, is suing the American Academy of Pediatrics, alleging that she was administered testosterone after a 45-minute appointment while living in Rhode Island.
She told the documentary makers that she is relieved that she was never offered the surgery, as she would have wanted, and it would have ruined her life.
“I really don’t want this to happen to other vulnerable young women,” Ayala said.
She said doctors only observed her for a few minutes before she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
“If I had been evaluated a little more this would never have happened, but it took 45 minutes to change my entire life and cause me irreversible health problems.”
Isabelle Ayala went from a woman to a man at the age of 14; Three years later, she realized that she had made a mistake.
She said The New York Post he felt that the procedures were being offered too soon and too easily.
‘I don’t want puberty to be the enemy. “I don’t want our natural biology to be the enemy,” he said.
The documentary is part of the Independent Women’s Forum series titled Identity Crisis. Ayala’s 12-minute episode, The Detransitioner Taking on the American Academy of Pediatrics, tells how she found a trans community online and embraced the idea of transitioning.
She said she was sexually abused as a child and sought to escape.
‘I decided to transition due to a number of unfortunate things I had associated with being a woman. And those things made me hate being a woman,” she said, adding that she first encountered the trans community at age 11, on Tumblr.
“This is going to fix me,” he recalled thinking.
Ayala said Internet forums and social media taught her to say she was suicidal, so at age 14 she convinced doctors to help her. She is now suing them, arguing that they used her as a guinea pig.
Ayala was prescribed testosterone, which she injected herself
“I learned from the Internet that I had to convince (my doctors and my family) that if they don’t confirm me, I’m going to commit suicide,” he said.
“I was a healthy girl,” she said in the documentary. “I was a physically healthy child.
Ayala claims that Dr. Jason Rafferty, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness, prescribed him testosterone after the initial visit.
He said he was taking legal action to try to prevent others from suffering.
“I don’t want these doctors to continue practicing, I really don’t,” he said. “I don’t think they deserve to practice when they ignore the damage they are doing.”
Kelsey Bolar, IWF’s director of storytelling and executive producer of the documentary, told The New York Post that Ayala’s story was compelling.
“What I find so interesting about Isabelle is that she is a soft-spoken person and not someone who seeks attention,” Bolar said.
“She’s really doing this for the right reasons.”
Ayala claims doctors ignored the fact that he has autism. ADHD and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder and depression when they prescribed the drugs.
She now suffers from daily pain, with symptoms including vaginal dryness, burning and itching, which usually occur after menopause, and is unsure of her ability to have children in the future.
Ayala is suing the doctors who treated her and the American Academy of Pediatrics, an association of children’s doctors that she says knowingly misled the public by publishing and disseminating a fraudulent “policy statement” on affirmative care that many have perceived as an authorized guide. for the treatment of gender-confused children in the US.
Isabelle Ayala, now 20, sues the doctors who treated her and the American Academy of Pediatrics
Dr. Jason Rafferty (pictured left), a Harvard graduate, authored the association’s 2018 policy statement that essentially created the “affirmative care” model, where the doctor is guided by the wishes expressed by the patient and recognizes, validates and supports the stated identity of the individual. Pictured on the right is Dr. Michelle Forcier, one of the country’s leading figures in “gender-affirming hormones and care plans,” who contributed to Ayala’s care.
Insurance claims for puberty blockers in the US have doubled since 2017
She also told doctors that she was unsure about taking testosterone because she might want to have a biological child in the future.
Testosterone is a male hormone that stops menstrual cycles and decreases the ovaries’ ability to produce estrogen, meaning it can affect fertility and sexual function.
In November 2017 he attempted suicide.
He later returned to Florida in June 2018 and continued taking testosterone for about a year, before stopping “cold turkey.”
Outside of sex hormones, Ayala gradually overcame her gender dysphoria and realized she was not a boy.
Years of testosterone injections have left her with vaginal atrophy, physical pain and the triggering of an autoimmune disease, Hashimoto’s disease, which was only present in the males of her family.
‘Isabelle has suffered from vaginal atrophy due to extensive testosterone use; she deals with excess facial and body hair; she struggles with a compromised bone structure; she is not sure if her fertility has been irreversibly compromised; “She still has mental health issues and deals with bouts of anxiety and depression, further compounded by a feeling of regret,” the lawsuit explains.
Other transition supporters have sued medical providers, but Ayala is the first to take direct aim at the American Academy of Pediatrics.
They have not commented on their case, which was filed in October. She is seeking an unspecified amount in compensatory and punitive damages.